Re: [Bitpim-devel] MacOS problem with initial config window...

[Steven P. <n9...@n9...>]

On Apr 26, 2004, at 9:22 PM, Roger Binns wrote:
> Modal dialogs run their own nested event loops.  This code shows it:

  I'll play with that and ask on the PythonMac lists...

  In the interim (for this test release), I'm going to do some hacking. 
I think it's better to use some default values than to have the user 
get a dialog they cannot interact with. It's far more confusing to 
them, IMHO.

  So, I'm hacking the startup to just set defaults and let the 
application continue it's launch. The user will have to be smart enough 
to actually go into the settings dialog and make the changes 
themselves.

  I'm only doing this for the Mac, not the other platforms.

> I would love for that startup stuff to be simplified, and you are 
> currently looking at my best efforts :-)

  Well, you know this stuff inside and out better than I do, so I'm not 
promising much. I'll give it a good thinking through.

> However it is a bit of late change to make now :-)

  Yeah, so for now I'm going to wimp out and just fake it on the Mac at 
initial (new user) launch time and hope they find the settings dialog. 
Not as user friendly, but it lets things load and doesn't give the user 
a blank/nonresponsive dialog and make them think the program isn't 
working.

  Steve

  P.S. I'll wait until you give the 'go ahead' to run the builds for 
test-9.