On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:56:08PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, John Levon wrote:
>
> > The first in a short series of dumb questions. Hints please !
I haven't been following this very much; it's all over my head. But there is
one thing I was thinking.
> > 4) OK/Apply will apply to whatever dialog the cursor happens to be in,
> > instead of being tied to the paragraph which was opened. This seems a
> > bug - either the dialog should update, or apply should change the
> > original paragraph.
>
> The dialog should update. This is the entered-a-different-paragraph
> signal I mentioned last week or so but haven't had time to figure out what
> to call it or where to call it from. Okay maybe just call it
> updateParagraph, but where in the code do we call it from?
I agree that it's illogical that when you change docs or paragraphs or
whatever the dialogs don't notice.
On the other hand, lets say I want to take 10 different paragraphs and add a
space after each and make some other changes. (Answer: I should use LaTeX
code to change spacing. But let's imagine I can't or don't know how to do
that for some reason.) I would probably want to change the paragraph dialog
once, then switch to another paragraph and hit Apply again, etc. But I won't
be able to do that this way. Character Layout is another place this might
happen.
So on the one hand, dialogs should update to reflect the current state of
whatever paragraph they're in. On the other, they shouldn't. Unfortunately,
I don't see a solution, since the two things obviously contradict each
other.
-Amir
