Re: [wxCode-users] removing wx from comp names

[Francesco M. <f18...@ya...>]

Hi,

>>    I was thinking that the new component list page will probably look like:
>>
>>A (2): 1 | B(1): 1 | ... | W (40): 1 2 3 4 | ...
>>
>>that is, since almost all component's names start by 'wx' the "W" initial will
>>be "abused".
> 
> I thought so too but I'd also like to see the full name as the component
> is (e.g. wxTreeListCtrl). Would it be possible to strip the "wx" just
> for the sorting into pages but still show the name including "wx"?
this is an extract from another mail on the thread:

 >> Perhaps, it would be simpler to ignore the wx in the index
 >> compilation. For example, components starting by 'A' or 'wxA' are
 >> indexed in letter 'A', and so on.
 >
 >thinking better to this approach I think that the following should do the "ignore wx 
 >prefix" logic:
 >
 >SELECT * FROM components WHERE (name LIKE 'a%' OR name LIKE 'wxa%')
 >
 >just I'm not so expert to evaluate the performance impact of such additional OR ... 
 >statements but I think it would be acceptable.

I think ignoring "wx" is the best choice... as you and others suggest.



> BTW can't the "single table" mode be a single table without pages? I
> like it most since it resembles the old components lists.
would this still be useful ?
I mean: we have a *lot* of components (> 50); putting them all into a single page would be 
stressing for the server and maybe not very useful...
anyway if you find it useful I can try to implement that.


> And could the
> link on the name go the the component view (e.g.
> http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/showcomp.php?name=wxScintilla) instead of
> the component directory?
yes, that's probably best than linking to the (sometimes missing) component website.

I'm working on the website right now; I'm converting the PHP code which I wrote in a 
C-like syntax (with lot of globals, etc) into a C++-like syntax (using PHP class objects). 
This will make the website much more easier to mantain, I hope.
At beginning, when creating the site I thought that was an overkill but now I changed idea :)

Francesco