[PATCH] Re: gEDA-dev: libgeda, gschem: New print dialog

[Peter TB Brett]

On Wednesday 02 August 2006 16:26, Patrick Bernaud wrote:
> Tomaz Solc writes:
>  > [...]
>  > On the other hand I would still suggest that you make the "File" and
>  > "Command" text entries editable. Even if you can use the file selection
>  > dialog I guess some of us still like to write the path by hand.
>  > "Command" entry is also kind of useless if you can't edit it.
>
> I will second that. It would be a good thing for this entry to be
> editable: I found it annoying that I could not change the name of the
> file without the dialog, and that I could not easily move in the entry to
> see the end of the filename (as it was too long).

I wasn't aware that that entry was _not_ already editable -- it should have 
been.  I'll double check it.  I would also prefer it to be editable!


On Wednesday 02 August 2006 16:26, Patrick Bernaud wrote: 

>  > I'll have a look tomorrow morning and see what I can do.  I'm not at all
>  > sure how to populate the paper sizes dialog with that setup -- pass in a
>  > GPtrArray as a property?
>
> You can retrieve the paper sizes by using libgeda s_papersize_get()
> from the constructor of the dialog (as you already do).
>
>
> From x_print_setup() the current papersize can be searched given the
> width and height from toplevel. This index is passed to the dialog as
> a property to select the correct paper in the combobox.

That's more or less what I'd decided to do already, but it's nice to have 
confirmation that it's a good way to do it. :)

Peter

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