Angus Leeming wrote:
>
> > my question was: why to check, when the user cannot enter
> > (at this time) wrong placements?
> >
> > it's not my problem to do a check, but why?
>
> Ok, understood. We should check EVERYTHING in all dialogs. Why? Because the
^^^^^^^^^^
I don't know ...
> GUIs are effectively external to LyX. They could pass any old rubbish back,
you don't trust programmers ... ;-)
> so we really should check that they haven't before the changes are applied.
> Lars would like this done by the LyX core and I agree. This has
> traditionally meant somewhere after LyXFunc::dispatch(), but we might
> consider that the controllers have become sufficiently well-established that
> they can now be considered a core part of LyX. In which case, the right place
> to do the check IS in the controllers (encapsulation, blah, blah). Remember
> that the controller-view was a suggested way of doing things, not the only
> way. Until now, we have't insisted that GUIs use it. Perhaps we should?
Understood.
Herbert
