Re: GtkAssistant API thoughts

[Carlos Garnacho <carlos_garnacho yahoo es>]

Hi!,

 --- Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com> escribió:

> On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 01:12 -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > > - ditch the "forward" and "back" signals, and use a user-specified function 
> > >   to compute the next page
> > 
> > With a fallback to the order in which you add them, right?  Also, what
> > are we thinking of keying off for the user function?  An enum?  The
> > value of the page?  The closest API analogy I can think of is
> > gtk_tree_view_set_column_drag_function(), which takes the columns as
> > arguments.  I've found that a bit clumsy in the past, though I don't
> > necessarily have a better suggestion.
> 
> Carlos' patch uses a function that takes and returns indexes (ie
> integers)
> 
> > > - use a stack of visited pages as you do to implement "back". I don't think 
> > >   there is a need to specify a custom back function, it should always go back 
> > >   to the previous page
> > 
> > I can think of one instance where we needed a custom back.  In RP3
> > (which was a modem configurator program) we had a page series that went:
> > 
> > [ Search for modems? ] -> [ Search progress ] -> [ Results ]
> >           ^-------------------------------------------/
> > 
> > We would probably do that better now, but just giving a data point.
> 
> Good point. We could probably handle that by adding a page type for
> progress pages, and then skipping those when going back.

Makes sense, but this will only be inherent to progress pages? maybe it would 
be nice to have a more generic name than GTK_ASSISTANT_PAGE_PROGRESS for this?
(not that I can think about a better one)

BTW, I'm already working on this implementation, should be ready the next 
week

        Carlos



		
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