Re: A general box

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le Thu, Aug 29, 2002, à 03:29:28PM -0500, Lars Clausen a écrit:
> 
>> I'm not quite sure I understand you.  You want the user to be able to
>> add properties to the Properties dialogs.  These properties wouldn't
>> affect the display, but would be saved in the file, useable for other
>> programs.  Is that right?  (Leaving aside the implementation of how the
>> user add them.)
> 
> I think I understand the same as Lars. The answer I think is just to add
> new property descriptors to property desc lists. If they're not used by
> the mouseodrom or display code, they'll still appear in dialogs and be
> saved.
> 
> (in fact, the Link_to_URL thing could be done very very quickly if just
> added to one of the propdesc header macros...)

Yes, but allowing the user to add their own things would be neater and
mucho more flexible.

-Lars

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