Re: [wxCode-users] wxCode categories

[John L. <jla...@gm...>]

On 9/3/05, Francesco Montorsi <f18...@ya...> wrote:
> > I took some time to set the categories for some of the components, I
> > hope people don't mind. Many were just under miscellaneous when they
> > are clearly controls or something else.
> thanks !
> actually, as soon as Scotland-Italy soccer match will end, I'll fix the E=
DIT form so that
> user can update their component categories theyself ;)
> I suppose you did the changes using phpMyAdmin

Yes.

> > Francesco, could you make it possible to select a few at once? Like wxp=
ort.
> sorry, I don't understand: what do you mean by select a few at once ? do =
you mean in
> phpMyAdmin interface ?
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For the user too (as you say above). I found a few of the components
should be in 2 or more categories. "awx" provides dialogs and controls
for example. Hopefully this is possible?
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> > I think some of the category names are a little confusing, does this
> > make sense?
> please see also my thread "new component list" about the available catego=
ries.
> in short I took them from wxWidgets docs (where a also a short desc is pr=
ovided)

Thanks, for reference here's a copy of it
http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/wxWindows/docs/wxwin_classesbycat.html=
#classesbycat

> > managed windows - A wxWindow derived control that manages other child
> > windows. (eg. wxSplitterWindow)
> yes

They seem to think that this means it's a standalone toplevel window.
I think the name is very confusing for our purposes. Maybe we don't
need it at all, you either have a control or a dialog (which we'll use
as our toplevel window category).

Or, we could use my definition, but call it=20
window containers -  A wxWindow derived control that manages other
child windows. (eg.wxNotebook,  wxSplitterWindow)

> > miscellaneous windows - dunno? isn't controls good enough?
> wx docs list under misc windows the following:
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> wxPanel  A window whose colour changes according to current user settings
> wxScrolledWindow  Window with automatically managed scrollbars
> wxGrid  A grid (table) window
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> ... though I don't know how many components could go in this category...

I think this is also a little confusing, basicly anything based on a
wxWindow is a control right? It's beyond me why they'd put wxGrid into
this categegory with wxPanel and wxNotebook. See also below about
controls.
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> > controls - A wxWindow dervived control. (eg. wxButton, wxGrid, wxStatic=
Text...)
> >    (include non user input controls here too?)
> no controls are only windows that interact with user

wxWidgets puts wxStaticBox into this though. Maybe it's good enough
for us to just have controls. Too many categories makes it hard to
find stuff, especially if something is a little bit of this and a
little bit of that.
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> > utilities -  ??? File stuff maybe?
> I added this even if not present in wx docs because I thought it could ha=
ve been useful
> but maybe that this is confusing (being 'miscellaneous' already there)

Yeah, "utility" doesn't help me understand what would be in this
category. It sounds to me like this should be for standalone programs,
I dunno like dos2unix or something like that. I'd say remove it, I
don't see anyone using it yet.
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Regards,
    -John Labenski