Re: Patch to custom object: object-specific properties (preliminary)

["Marco Contenti" <m contenti libero it>]

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From: "Cyrille Chepelov"
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 9:05 AM
> A little worry about your patch: at one point, you are making a switch
> based on the type of the property, and then making assumptions about the
> sizeof(property data). This has the big inconvenient to me of increasing
> the coupling between the Custom object and the StdProp library. Would it
> be possible to factor this into StdProp itself instead?
I would be glad to use a function telling me the size of property data given
the type, if there is one. I'm sorry I am no Dia expert. I didn't even know
that Dia existed until three weeks ago, so I chose to limit the damage I can
do to the Custom object plug-in only, not involoving libdia.
Also, the StdProp library source code is about an order of magnitude bigger
and pretty undocumented, except for the few notes I read on the wiki at
faemalia.org, therefore I'm a bit afraid of touching it.
I have some unanswered questions about StdProp, among others:
- Is there a complete list of available types?
- What are SARRAY and DARRAY and how can I use them?
- "composite" is just an XML tag and has nothing to do with StdProp, am I
right?
- Is there a (standard) way to edit a group of properties in a separate
window or page?
Thanks.
Marco