Hi, you are not only one confused Markus by this;-)
The label/description stuff is a bit illogical. I suppose to change in this way: * Use 'description' as short sentence describing module/flag/option (must be defined). * Rename 'label' to 'tooltip'. Martin 2007/9/7, Markus Neteler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > HamishB wrote: > > > >> Hamish wrote: > >> > as earlier mentioned* I'd like to change the Option struct to > >> > rationalize the ->description and ->label parts. > >> > > >> > currently, if a label is defined it becomes the description, and the > >> > description becomes the tooltip. This is non-intuitive and > >> > inconsistent. > > ... > > so we have three possible levels of verbosity for an option description: > > ->label: a few words > > ->description: a sentence > > ->tooltip: a paragraph/short example showing format (doesn't exist) > > > > I think it is a good idea to keep ->description (as commonly used now) > > short and to the point, ie shorter than ~65 chars (so it fits on one > > line). Certainly the label should quite short. It looks bad when the > > description is line wrapped in --help, or colliding with the right side > > of the GUI window. > > > > I would like to bring up this issue again (since I am confused): > > Currently only about 10 modules use > module->label > > In the GUI pop up it is even printed in the wrong vertical order > if above definition is true + there is ugly vertical space between > these two lines. > > Question: what's the point of module->label? Take it out or > modify 290+ modules? We need some consistency... > Is there anything using module->label|description as tooltip? > > confused (about why we need two things to do nearly the same), > Markus > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/new-std-options-for-files-tf3438602.html#a12554008 > Sent from the Grass - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev > -- Martin Landa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://gama.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa * _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
