Dear George, Thanks for your answer anyway.
George Cristian Bina wrote: > A selection plugin can display any GUI he wants. What would be the > advantage of having those in the results pane versus a plugin provided > window or dialog? If the plugin is implemented to allow the user to > modify the information it presents I see no problem to allow the user > to change some of the entries from the database - beu this needs to be > implemented by that plugin. I guess the main reason to re-use the result pane would be that it is working so well and a Oxygen user is used to it. But I agree that a separate GUI window could also work. I have to give it some thought. > A content completion filter is an interesting extension and it can > provide also annotations to the offered values. The annotations are > presented next to the content completion window when a value is > selected. This filter class receives the context the content > completion is invoked in and the list of proposals oXygen is about to > display. It should return the same or an updated list of proposals > (adding, modifying or deleting entries). Each proposal is represented > by a content completion item that contains mainly what will be > inserted in the document, what will be rendered in the content > completion window and the annotations that will be rendered next to a > selected proposal. > You can use this extension to provide ID values as what will be > inserted, then you can either provide also the values as what will be > rendered in the completion list or some short descriptions if you have > such info, then as annotations provide the complete descriptions of > the entries. This would be a useful extension to the current way, I think. Are there plans to actually implement this? Christian -- Christian Wittern Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN _______________________________________________ oXygen-user mailing list oXygen-user@oxygenxml.com http://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user
