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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> It's been rumoured that [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
[...]
> > I suspect that there is probably some way that I could generate patch
> > files to represent the "whole thing" using CVS; I would be glad to do
> > so if someone could provide me some instruction on how to do that.
CVS isn't that smart. In particular it won't get the right answer for
files you've deleted, and it'll also have trouble for new files.
> > There is one *major* thing that this is waiting on, for full
> > implementation, namely the dialog that Rob has described as
> > (gnc:choose-from-list-dialog title list-of-button-name-thunk-pairs).
Uh... Oops. I forgot you were waiting on this. Based on my query
dialog stuff, I *think* I can write something like this without too
much trouble. I'll take the time I was going to spend on the session
stuff.
I also noticed that scwm has solved (or is working on) several
problems we've talked about. In particular they have something *very*
like the automatic options-dialog stuff I've talked about in the past.
For those interested, it might be worth looking at
http://scwm.mit.edu/. Search for the "Configuration/Preferences"
stuff about one page down along with a screenshot showing the GUI
result.
> > For debugging purposes, it would be Real, Real Useful to have the
> > ability to run some Guile-in-a-Window, which is something Rob
> > indicated he might consider writing.
Hmm. I can easily provide the c-level function that'll let you hand
guile a string for evaluation. The hard part for me is the Gnome code
(which I'm less familiar with than guile). If anyone wants to whip up
the gnome window for handling the user IO (even if it's just an entry
widget and a text output widget, I can hook it up. Actually I'm not
sure I don't like the scwm approach better, though I'm not sure it
applies here. They just have a tiny executable scwmrepl that lets you
invoke a shell that passes your forms directly to the scwm guile
interpreter. Since we can't be guaranteed of only having one gnucash
running (or are we intending to mandate that?), then we'd need to
allow the user to select the right one. This would avoid the gui
issues and allow some other clever tricks as well.
Otherwise I'll look in to it after I do the list-dialog stuff above.
If you don't hear back from me on this in a week, please feel free to
remind me.
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Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930
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