On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 04:41:23PM -0500, Doug Quale wrote: > > I think all the API is in-place; what seems to be necessary is a > > cross-platform (cross-language?) mechanism to persist user preferences. > > Maybe PyGTK should just go ahead and grow one <wink>. > > Pygtk provides a great opportunity to experiment with an interface. > Probably what we want is a function to serialize the treeview state to > an XML string to be saved and another function to load the saved state > string and set the treeview properties. Some flags would be required > to tell what parts of the state are wanted. In many applications > expanded/collapsed node state could be quite large and not > interesting.
You'd also need to specify a way to discover, store (and restore on startup/widget construction) these preferences per-user and per-widget -- or is that up to the application programmer? Take care, -- Christian Robottom Reis | http://async.com.br/~kiko/ | [+55 16] 3361 2331 _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/
