John Darrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been thinking about this too, and I've got an idea > which might give a more pleasing gui than that produced by the Chicago > company: If we use the features of the GtkTreeView widget, then we > can present a list of categories and allow the user to expand or > collapse those categories in which (s)he's interested. It means that > the dialog box doesn't have to be cluttered with more widgets, yet > allows easy filtering and selection of the functions.
I agree. That was basically my idea too, but you presented it better. > Would it be possible to make an api which provides an iterator which > can be used to return all the functions which belong to a given > combination of catagories? It may be better to use bitfields instead > of sequential enums. I was thinking more of an API that directly exports a hierarchy of categories containing functions. Based on a quick look at the GTK docs, this could be pushed into a GtkTreeStore pretty easily? > Having made that request, I don't consider it to be the most important > thing for pspp right now, so I'm probably not going to get around to > using such an api until I've got some time on my hands. OK. -- "GNU does not eliminate all the world's problems, only some of them." --Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
