UI for date specification (was Re: Ping?)

[Robert Graham Merkel]

Dave Peticolas writes:
 > Robert Graham Merkel writes:
 > > (now cc'ing to -devel because technical)
 > > Dave Peticolas writes:
 > >  > Robert Graham Merkel writes:
 > > <snip>
 > >  > > After that, I'll also build a combination widget that
 > >  > > supports both absolute and relative dates.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Sounds good.
 > > 
 > > Actually, I've realised I've gone about things the wrong way.  Instead
 > > of making another "relative-date" option type, I think I should modify
 > > the existing date option to provide the choice of either absolute
 > > dates, relative dates, or both.  Grrrrr. . . but most of the code I
 > > wrote was necessary anyway.  What do you think?
 > 
 > I think that's a good idea.
 
How do reckon I should present an option that allows both relative and
absolute dates?  How about we have a radio button next to each of the
relative-date and the absolute-date selectors, and disable the
non-selected widget?

Oh, and how do you "turn off" a gtk widget?

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Robert Merkel	                           rgmerk@mira.net

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