So after complaining about the new SLR dialog for the millionth time on IRC, I was told that I should just send in a patch that makes it do what I want. Not being a programmer, I said that it's easier to just whine and complain. Regardless, I've decided to take what brain cells I have left and try to use them to grok the code behind the SLR dialog. It's not easy. Neither one of my brain cells are very keen on cooperating, and that makes it hard to concentrate with all the bickering going on. But that's for me and my therapist to discuss...
Anyway, what brings me here is the result of some experimenting I did changing some things in dialog-sx-since-last-run.c. The easy thing to change was to get rid of a bit of the geek-speak in the dialog by changing the instance state names here: static char* gnc_sx_instance_state_names[] = { N_("Ignored"), N_("Postponed"), N_("To be Created"), N_("Reminder"), N_("Automatically Created"), NULL }; That was easy and I liked the result. Encouraged, I sought to reading more of the code to see where it builds the list of SXs that get displayed. I want only SXs that will be in a Reminder, To Be Created, or Automatically Created state to display. I have a lot of SXs and having those that are neither ready to be created nor reminders adds unwanted clutter for me. While I was looking, I found this: "gtk_tree_view_expand_all(dialog->instance_view);" in GncSxSinceLastRunDialog* gnc_ui_sx_since_last_run_dialog(GncSxInstanceModel *sx_instances, GList *auto_created_txn_guids) Both my braincells agreed that this must be where all the SXs get expanded. So I decided to comment that out to see what would happen. The result was as expected, the dialog displays with none of the SXs expanded. That really cleans up the dialog for me. So I got to thinking... there must be a way to only expand a certain subset of SXs (like just expand the To Be Created SXs, or even just the TBC's that have variables). I'm guessing that using gtk_tree_view_expand_row () instead of gtk_tree_view_expand_all() would somehow do it, but that's as far as I've gotten. My C skills are virtually non-existent, but I'm willing to learn (at least enough to accomplish what I want). Anybody care to explain to me how I can attack this? Do I need to create a new function that expands only certain rows in the list and use that to replace gtk_tree_view_expand_all()? How do I do that? A gentle nudge in the right direction would be much appreciated. :) Thanks, Tim P.S. Another thought I had was to display the SXs in a color-coded manner so that Automatics could be grey'd (I think the State column is grey'd out already), the Reminders could be yellow, the To Be Created without variables could be dark green while the To Be Created that have variables could be displayd light green. (But that's just a crazy idea my left brain cell had...) -- Fedora Core release 6 (Zod), Linux 2.6.22.2-42.fc6 KDE: 3.5.7-9.fc6 Fedora 22:20:01 up 4 days, 7:24, 3 users, load average: 0.16, 0.15, 0.16 "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts" John Wooden
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