Hi Glenn, > All good points.
Thanks, I've had a couple years to ponder them. > I *do* think however that for the typical user (90% of > the users?) we could provide the majority of the most > common options in a UI. I still think there is value > is providing a simple UI even if it is incomplete. I guess my concern has been that UI users may never see the benefit of variables with the dozens of searches that provide that capacity but are not directly editable within the UI. Without that exposure I think some of these searches may go unused. > Another thought is to have (yet) another file this is > owned by this UI (non-editable directly by the user). > Its settings would override settings in preferences.js, > but would not override settings in localprefs.js. Awesome! Excellent thinking outside the box. I would throw my support behind that readily. It's a great solution to the many issues of editing the localprefs file. Prolly a "uiprefs.js" file called immediately after the call to "localprefs.js" would make it work perfectly. A consistent style and structure for variable generation and assignment (easily regex parsable) would make it easy to collect and assign values. I haven't had to touch C++ in years though, and can't conceive I'd be any help on that side of it. If it were VB, we could talk - I still maintain apps in VB sporadically. I could probably mock up a sample dynamic interface in VB6 in a couple hours. Regards, Shawn K. Hall http://12PointDesign.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Archive: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-devel
