+++ Michael Lake [03-11-06 15:08 +1100]: >> John Pybus wrote: >> > >>> > You'll also note the need to convert reference of the form >>> > survey.subsurvey.station to station at subsurvey.survey . This is also >>> > rather irksome (I think it betrays therion's tcl roots?). > >> OT but I think that at some point it will have to use another GUI. >> Either GTK-anything or wxWindows or
Yes. Everyone agrees xtherion is fairly horrid and is merely a 'proof of concept' UI. I think stacho picked tcl because he already knew it. Most of the people I know who are currently using illustrator rather than therion are doing it because the interface was too slow/horrible in comparison. The problem is of course that writing good UIs is both hard and tedious - any volunteers :-) ..... now back to the topic at hand. >> > >>> > I'd really like a survexinclude which would import survex data from the >>> > original files. With very little reorganisation my existing data could >>> > then be used with therion without change. That might require linking >>> > the survex parser into therion to implement. > >> >> The above would be by far the best option. Copying and pasting in your >> survex data creates then two copies of survex data that can get >> out-of-sync when you update the survex data. OK - that's another vote. Unless any of the main authors object violently this seems like the way to go. Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/
