Re: [Gramps-devel] ToDo List

[Kelvin L. <ne...@ki...>]

I tried out Eero's suggestion of "Public" and "Private" tabs, and I 
think it actually looks rather good. The attached patch simply offers 
Public and Private notes for all Person objects. There are no +/- 
buttons to add extra tabs, which I think keeps the interface simpler and 
more user-friendly, while fulfilling the job of allowing you to keep 
notes that you don't want exported into the narrative web site.

In this version the new tabbed multiple-note page is only available in 
the Person notes, so you no longer get additional note tabs in the 
Address Editor etc. I've also fixed the tab label handling so that the 
"Note" tab label goes bold if there is any text in any of the sub-notes.

The underlying Note class is still used for all objects including 
non-Person objects, but Person objects are the only ones that use the 
extended API to support multiple notes.

serialize()/unserialize() now store title/note pairs as tuples but can 
still import old-style note formats and non-Person note-formats, so any 
code that expects to see the old Note API still works.

I've also modified the XML generation to import and export from the 
new-style notes, and it will also import old-style notes for those 
importing older databases. During the upgrade (whether XML or not) any 
user notes will be placed in the default "Public" page, but there will 
still be a "Private" page for any Persons added before the upgrade.

There was no need to modify the GEDCOM import because it will still work 
using the old Note API, but we may want to allow export of the 
additional notes pages to GEDCOM if that is possible. Currently it will 
only export the default/public page to GEDCOM.

I hope I've covered all bases with this patch, but this is the first 
time I've delved into the source tree so there may be some dependencies 
I don't know about. Let me know if there is any additional work required 
and I'll send a further patch.

All the best,
Kelvin.