Re: [eboxy-users] listbox widget

[Paul E. <blu...@bl...>]

On Tuesday, February 04, 2003 4:50 PM NZST, Kimble Young wrote:
> Firstly. I don't mind receiving CVS notifications.

OK, I'll keep that in mind.

> Sourceforge doesn't really do a good job of reporting when something
> has been committed (I think it's said 577 commits ever since I first
> came across eboxy :)


Yeah, I think the same applies to everything on the main page. Personally I
think Sourceforge is falling behind in general and it's time they updated
their software. In any case my CVS comments aren't always very descriptive
and even if they were it might be hard to decipher what's actually been
added/changed from a user's perspective.

> The methods work fine for me so I'm curious as to why they were
> commented out. Is there something I should know?  If not, I would find
> the methods very useful and I think so would others.  My thoughts on
> the widget are provide as many functions as possible without, of
> course, introducing redundancies.

There was a reason for not putting these in, and I think that was because it
wasn't fully implemented and I wasn't really sure how far to go, and I was
hoping to be able to make a more generic method that would work with other
types of widgets. Being able to run an action from a script might be a
better way to do it. I'll have a think about it tonight.

> One feature I was hoping for was a text and value system, where the
> user never sees the value but it can be used for things like a full
> pathname where only a filename is shown to the user or for one
> applied use I wanted which was to show info from an MP3 ID3 tag to
> the user but have the value as the real filename. Of course value
> would be totally optional.

Yeah, you're not the only person to ask for this :)

> I'm quite happy to have a crack at this if Paul thinks it fits into
> the eboxy system and hasn't done it already.

I'll see about putting it in this evening.

Cheers,
Paul