On Sunday 13 September 2009, Julie S wrote: > Everything I wrote was all talk and no real thoughts about what is > involved.
Same here for the most part. > To me the easiest thing to do, is just put back the purple cursor and leave > it all alone for now, or do the combined cursor like I mentions. At this point I don't think it really is that simple at all. The purple cursor is completely gone now. It kind of reminds me of the time I tried to go through this railroad tunnel when I was a kid. Standing on this side of it, the light at the far end looked pretty big and bright, but after I got in there a really long way, it seemed to grow smaller and smaller, to the point where it was like a little desk lamp always just out of arm's reach. I thought about going back, and realized that the light in the direction I had come from was the same size. Boy was that a long tunnel. That was in my younger and more innocent days before I knew anything about railroad police officers and strict no trespassing laws. I just had NO CLUE what I was getting myself into that day. Turned out that damn tunnel was over a mile long! That's where we are now on all this cursor business. Bringing the purple cursor back to life is where we came from, and sorting out the big remaining issues with the one cursor approach is the other side of the tunnel we're curious to see. If we go back now, it will be twice as much of a journey to get to that other side, but if we go there and it doesn't work out, it will be twice as much of a journey to get back to where we started. At least this tunnel hopefully doesn't have trains. In my real tunnel, the desk lamp went out, to be replaced with a pen light, and we ran like hell back to the near side, narrowly escaping with our lives. (That, boys and girls, is why walking through railroad tunnels is not only illegal, it's just stupid.) > I think at this point it is best to do the "least" amount of work in this > area and get RG out the door asap. I agree there 100%. All of this just isn't really something I counted on having to deal with one way or the other. Very much like how the far side of that tunnel looks so very much closer when you're standing outside in the light, looking through it. (It does. Come down one day and I'll show you. It's a pretty cool perspective effect now that I know the truth of it.) > Everything sounds like a rewrite to me at this point, and we've got enough > of that as it is. Too much and then some seven times over, and I would be more than happy if the unavoidable rewrite I just finished, and the one Cris Fryer is working right now could be the last ones to deal with. But as I say, we're already in the middle of the tunnel at this point, and it's definitely worth thinking more about the far side. It would be very appropriate for Chris to show up and offer his own thoughts about all of this too, before I wind up making a decision on my own and running with it. The main thing is to figure out where we're going to go, and SOON, then GET THERE, so I'm not about to let this turn into a month of hand wringing. If I have to call it alone, I'll call it. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
