On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Angus Leeming wrote:

> Easy! Create a temporary params struct which is changed by the dialog. On 
> apply(), compare the contents of the struct to those of the inset.params(). 
> Only update the changes.
> 
> Do you really think that this is necessary? Admittedly, it's inconsistent to 
> have two different types of dialog (your's and all the others!), but your 
> popup is quite intuitive to use. On the other hand, having an Apply button 
> would mean minimise redraws of the table which seems to be quite important...

I don't think it's worth it. A real fix of the tabular UI problems requires
something like the grey excel-style "handles" I mentioned earlier ...

john

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