On 03/10/2010 12:29, David DEMELIER wrote: > 2010/10/3 Dominic Fandrey <kamik...@bsdforen.de>: >> On 03/10/2010 11:45, David DEMELIER wrote: >>> 2010/10/3 Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk>: >>> I don't want something complex, checkbox, textbox, radiobuttons is enough. >> >> Textbox is _very_ complex. Think of all the code you'd have to >> add to ports to check what was entered by the user. >> At the very least you have to verify that whatever was provided >> is valid. For the feature not to become annoying you'd have to >> be a lot more fuzzy and complex, though. >> > > What do you mean by valid? In the way that the user can't insert any > no alpha-numeric characters or an entry that is only valid to the > application ? >
Text fields are arbitrary and you'd probably want to limit it to a specific purpose, like a list of languages. So is de_* an acceptable language? Do you delimit with space, pipe or semicolon? Do people really want to be bothered with learning the specific syntax of your ports text input fields? -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"