Re: [Scribia-dev] GUI!

[Ben H. <bh...@sa...>]

At 1:31 AM -0500 2/21/01, Ludovic Nicolle wrote:
>
>Why not setting that up as "exile against the beast" display? ;-)
>I find out in personal use that I do like the ability to browse more
>information at a single glance, instead of going back and forth from
>various panes.


Yes, i was thinking about that too. Perhaps as an option, put a 
little "Spreadsheet" icon in the pane window which when clicked opens 
a large window which shows everything at a glance. I dunno. There is 
a lot of info to display!
I wasnt thinking the multipane view as the ultimate interface, yet. :)

>
>access are now gone. Someone broke into my appartment on Monday afternoon
>and stole my computer with all my stuff on the hard drive. With barely no

Man.. that really sucks. Computers do get recovered, perhaps you 
could find it being hawked or something.

>ff the top of my head, all my prog stuff has been gone since
>monday):
>EventRecord	theEvent;
>WaitNextEvent(everyEvent, &theEvent, 20, nil);


Yeah, we could do that. But as you realize that is not nice to 
powerplant. Generally you should defer all event handling to 
powerplant's event loop. We really should use a thread of some sort 
for the scanner. As a quick hack though, yes we should add that.


>This is assuming the old scanning loop that was in CScribiaApp.cpp for
>ScanFolder. If someone changed or moved it away, then different code may be


Yes, its still there.

>required instead. On the long term, better behavior would be to have the
>scanner in a different thread with no UI by itself, but I had no time to
>implement that.

Aye. Threads are actually pretty simple to add in powerplant IIRC. 
The effort involved is in redesigning the app structure to be 
thread-friendly. Unless we want to put each CScribiaDoc in its own 
thread - is it bad to have UI in different threads?

-Ben
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