On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 05:50:41PM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> It would be nice, though, if the config program can simply query the Tux
> Paint binary to get the list of available languages and charsets, similar
> to `tuxpaint --lang help` but with more information, so the hard coding
> doesn't need to be done in two different places, in the main program and
> the config program.

Thought about that... :^)


> Furthermore, it'd be even cooler if the Tux Paint
> could be queried to get the *complete* list of options and its logical
> grouping so the config program doesn't need to have *any* hard coded
> information about Tux Paint's options, so it doesn't need to be updated
> whenever Tux Paint program gets updated with new options.

That's a little trickier. :^)  It would be cool, and maybe we can refurbish
tuxpaint-config down the road to support some XML or Lisp-like dump
that can be 'sucked-in' by the config tool.  And perhaps make it more
generic so that other apps can use it.  It'd be a generic "rc-file GUI".

But, for now, it's simple enough to hand-code.  It's not like I'm adding
many options in each version. :^)  And, hopefully even >I< will be able to
commit new language options to tuxpaint-config when I go and add them to
tuxpaint itself... :)

-bill!
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