gEDA-dev: [PATCH] gschem: Visual feedback for keyboard commands

[Peter TB Brett]

On Thursday 31 May 2007 19:07:51 Ivan Stankovic wrote:
> Let me give an example; if you press 'f', the string displayed
> will be just 'f' and it will stay displayed until you press
> another key. Assume then you press 'w'. Then the 'w' will be
> appended to the string and 'fw' will be displayed in the
> status bar for 400ms. After that the string is cleared.
> (The string is also cleared any time you press Escape.)


+gchar *current_keyaccel_string = NULL;
+static TOPLEVEL *saved_toplevel = NULL;

...

+  /* We need to save the toplevel because it may not be
+   * there anymore when we need to clear the status bar string
+   * (this occurs with the 'fc' command, for example) */
+  saved_toplevel = global_window_current;


This is a hack.  I know the model-view-controller separation in gschem is 
pretty rubbish, but there must be a better way to handle this without making 
the situation even worse than it is already.  The phrase "maintenance 
nightmare" comes to mind.

Peter


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