gEDA-dev: Gattrib save-changes confirmation dialogs

[Peter Clifton]

On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 17:01 +0200, Ivan Stankovic wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 02:54:40PM +0100, Peter Clifton wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I just wanted to check - Ivan, are you still hacking away on Gattrib?
> 
> Yes, right now I'm trying to rethink the core achitecture
> and it goes somewhat slow. But I'm working on it.
> 
> > I didn't want to make changes where you are already working, but I think
> > it would be great to make the gattrib save confirmation dialogs the same
> > as gschem's.
> > 
> > I've not got a solid case to reproduce this, but I've experienced severe
> > weirdness when quitting gattrib without saving. Multiple confirm
> > dialogs, and I get the feeling gattrib ingored my response to them
> > anyway!
> 
> Have you tried applying all my gattrib related patches (those posted
> to the list, at least)? There was plenty of work on the dialogs. 
> 
> If the patches don't help, a reproducible way to trigger the
> behaviour would be of great help.

Which ones are still un-applied?

[PATCH] gattrib: reorganize file opening code
[PATCH 1/3] gattrib: remove unneeded globals
[PATCH 2/3] gattrib: overhaul menu creation code
[PATCH 3/3] gattrib: remove unused pixmaps.h

I guess the first one could have an effect, but the others don't seem
likely to.

What I wanted to check is whether that dialog was on your radar, and if
not - whether a patch copying gschem's similar dialog would break
against any work you have in progress.

For now, I've got engines to repair, lots of PhD work to catch up on,
semiconductors to test, weddings to go to, birthday presents to buy...
I'll not be round to gattrib any time soon!

Just FYI, I have been working on the multi-attrib editor dialog, trying
to make it work more intelligently with multiple selections of objects.

I've also attempted to reduce the number of drawing artifacts like
dropped cues / grips when moving / dragging nets about. I only got
useful improvements from the net consolidation when dragging with grips
so far. To fix it all properly, the redraw architecture may have to
change.

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Peter Clifton

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