Re: [Libvisual-devel] Re: xmms plugin

[Duilio J. P. <dp...@fc...>]

> I think that parsing just the VisParamEntries won't provide a nice
> user interface experience, especially when it comes to big
> lists of VisParamEntries. The VisUI module could give some hints
> to the UI builder like, grouping, what kind of input entry, lay
> restrictions on the input. VisUI won't be complex, or big, it's just
> a few extra hints so a way nicer UI can be build.
> 
> My 2cents.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dennis

Oh, I see now what are your plans for VisUI! But, how exactly we can
give that hints. I remember you have mentioned something like libglade
does.

Doing with the thing we have now won't be difficult:
- grouping of params could be done changing to a VisList of
VisParamContainer's on VisPluginData structure.
- lay restrictions on the input could be done adding a pointer to a
'validator' function, which returns TRUE if the given value for the
VisParam a valid one (and probably also return a message string in 
case of error), and will be provided by the plugin writer.

But well, VisUI still being a good idea, I suggest these easy changes
just to concentrate on other things for a while, like VisFont and the
actual libvisual-display.


Bye,
Duilio.