Subject: Re: Commit: Various Lists UI improvements.
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jan 30 2001 - 23:57:01 CST
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Thomas Fletcher wrote:
> Martin,
>
> This is exactly what I had in mind a way back when we took a look
> at the MSWord implementation of lists and how it differed. Nice to
> see this all coming together and getting cleaned up/worked out again.
>
Yes it took a while to get all the infrastructure right but now it is
easy to tweak these UI things.
I also took me a while to realize that our lists are what MS calls an
"Outline". I dodn't know why they distinguish between Outlines and Lists.
I think it just serves to confuse.
It's fun to set up a complicated multi-level list structure, make some
chanes at the start and watch everything change to match it. Even more fun
to press "undo" and watch it change back. Ahh the amount of effor required
to get that to Just Work..
I'm also happy that we can cand/copy/paste complicated List structures
through the document. All-in-all our vision for Lists in Abi is pretty
much in place, once we get the dialog going.
> With regards to the dialog. Your suggestions sound good, will they
> be build on the basis of what we were working on before Christmas? I
> still think that a modal version might be easier for the users ... but
> if you implement the non-modal version we were discussing then that
> would be fine as well.
>
Yes I plan to implement all the things we talked about before Christmas.
I really want to do a re-write of XP Lists dialog code. It will break
other builds but hopefully not too much. Can other platform maintainers
fix things afterwards?
I'll work from Mike's "new" (in December) dialog code which puts more
functionality into xp.
Cheers
Martin
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