On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 02:28:30PM -0700, Sam Hart wrote: > What about this (he suggests without looking in tuxpaint code to see how > feasable it is ;-) ... > > Make it so when someone holds down some meta key (like alt or ctrl or > whatever) they get a "Save As" dialog, and normal otherwise...
OoooOOooh. Yeah, not a bad idea. Similar to how Print config works under Windows, MacOSX and BeOS. And, of course, it can be turned off by "--noadvancedsaveas" or something ;) I think simply asking for the title of a picture, to be used as the filename (rather than the YYYYMMDDHHMMSS convention) would be suitable. e.g., Alt + click-'Save', type in "Johnny's Bicycle", and it would save a file named "Johnnys_Bicycle.png" or some-such. Then provide room for these titles in the Open dialog (and/or show them in the 'tips' section at the bottom). (Might want to save a ".dat" file that contained the full name, un-filesystem-ized, for that.) I think I'd prefer to do a simply one-line text type-in field, rather than providing access to the OS's "Save As..." file browser dialog. (First off, it would need to be done N times, where N = # platforms Tux Paint runs on. Secondly, I still think it should be a /simpler/ interface than the normal GUI paradigm we're all used to from Word Processors ;) ) Comments? Also, I've asked if he'd be willing to 'beta test' the new feature before 0.9.14 comes out for real. That means I'd need a few builds of 0.9.14 for Windows. John, you busy? Or has someone else decided to step forward and take over Win32 building for us? :) -bill! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got kids? Get Tux Paint! http://newbreedsoftware.com/bill/ http://newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/ _______________________________________________ Tuxpaint-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev
