Generic Import, Usual Usage Scenario

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
22 Nov 2002 21:08:34 -0500


Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de> writes:

> On Freitag, 22. November 2002 20:05, Glen Ditchfield wrote:
> > On November 22, 2002 10:09 am, Christian Stimming wrote:
> > > - For a New transaction, clicking on the destination account cell opens
> > > an account-chooser window, which closes as soon as the user chooses one
> > > account.
> >
> > Please, no.  Can you display the destination account in a drop-down widget,
> > just like the one in the "Transfer" column of a register window?  If
> > necessary, users would select new accounts the same way that they do when
> > using register windows.
> 
> *cough* Surely one can do that. Will you please code the necessary extra 
> widget for us? :-)))) Seriously, I totally agree with you here. The thing 
> only is that this would require coding your own derived Widget of GtkListItem 
> (as was done for the register), whereas the click/open dialog solution would 
> be as simple as writing a text string into the GtkCList. The former would 
> keep me busy for next 7 days whereas the latter would keep me busy for the 
> next 7 minutes. Feel free to contribute as much code yourself as you'd like 
> -- we are always in need for new developers :-))))

Yea, the problem is that the GtkCList cannot accept an arbitrary widget
in a cell.  Otherwise we could use the GNCAccountSel widget.

> Christian

-derek

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