Feature Requests item #1399058, was opened at 2006-01-06 23:08 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=352439&aid=1399058&group_id=2439
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Open Priority: 5 Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Which property sheet gets used for each extension? Initial Comment: Here's what I'm thinking... A form with a combobox, an Open button, a static text label. When the form loads, it fills the combobox with a list of file extensions (ie, .bat, .reg, .inf, .cpp, et al.). When the end user clicks upon the extension, the name of the property sheet holding the properties for that extension presents itself in the static text label and the Open button activates. When the Open button gets clicked, the proper property sheet opens. IF several property sheets are present for a particular extension, a second combobox could hold the list of property sheets and the Open button doesn't activate until an item from the second combobox gets selected. I'm new to using Scintilla, and this suggestion is the first I've thought of. I'm thinking this would aid in the user friendliness, as I just spent a couple hours trying to get some things working for a new .reg property sheet and found out that an Others.properties file already existed holding the extension. I currently don't know if each extension only employs one property sheet, but I get the feeling that isn't so, because I found a PHP.properties, a PHPFunctions.properties, a PHP.api file and I haven't quite made it to the point on how to interpret everything I see. Valid reasons for employing such a form and against it... For #1) It could eliminate all the properties from the menu. For #2) A well designed form displays the information in a friendlier format. For #3) The single menu item to get to all the property sheets could be named "Configuration", "Properties", or "WSciTE Preferences". For #4) The Preferences dialog might provide some other useful things in an easy to use and friendly design. Against #1) The argument against this is that it would take a couple clicks to open any property sheet. Jim Carlock ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=352439&aid=1399058&group_id=2439 _______________________________________________ Scintilla-interest mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/scintilla-interest
