[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASSGUI] changing data for parser

[Michael Barton]

Descriptions can be wrapped too with wx.StaticText.Wrap

Michael


On 3/22/07 10:26 PM, "Hamish" <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Daniel Calvelo wrote:
>> Having a (mostly) working wxPython GUI, I have bumped into the problem
>> of having waaaaaay too long descriptions that are fed as labels in the
>> GUI. 
> 
> Then they are options which should get a ->label = "short description"
> added to them. That's what ->label is there for (apparently). Note the
> tcl GUIs will wrap long descriptions onto the next line if it looks like
> they will collide with the "key_desc: gisprompt, required" text. Then
> set a max/standard width & there's no problem.
> 
> 
> Automatically breaking at the first punctuation char will lead to weird
> breakage. Some people (like me) have a bad habit of using parenthetical
> phrases mid-sentence. Better to craft it by hand with ->label if needed.
> 
> Chopping out info from ->description to make them shorter, without
> relocating it to a tooltip and without losing meaning is very hard.
> At minimum the info needs to be relocated into the help page.
> 
> 
> I have updated the ->descriptions /* comment */ in gis.h to better
> describe what that is for (describing the option's ->options=",,,").
> 
> 
> I don't understand this:
>     char *guisection;
>      /* GUI Layout guidance: ';' delimited heirarchical tree position */
> 
> so how is ";" used here??  (see lib/gis/gui.tcl)
> 
> 
> 
> Hamish

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