[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #306: v.in.ogr GUI is missing --o and --v

[GRASS GIS]

#306: v.in.ogr GUI is missing --o and --v
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  Reporter:  msieczka     |       Owner:  grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                      
  Priority:  major        |   Milestone:  6.4.0                    
 Component:  wxGUI        |     Version:  svn-develbranch6         
Resolution:               |    Keywords:                           
  Platform:  All          |         Cpu:  All                      
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Comment (by glynn):

 Replying to [comment:14 hamish]:

 > > The behaviour is dictated by the underlying widget provided by
 > > the toolkit
 >
 > right, but we can make tabs at will, and we can call one "...".
 >
 > Questions for working within the current toolkit:
 >  - can we control the order of the tabs on the fly?

 AFAICT, no.

 >  - can we make and destroy tabs on the fly?

 Yes.

 >  - can we grey out a tab?

 AFAICT, no.

 > if those things are possible maybe we can hack in a work-around.

 Also, I don't know how easy it is to determine the position of tabs
 relative to the parent.

 > if not, we will have to take care to talk about the little arrows
 > in the getting started tutorials, and perhaps file a wish upstream.

 Presumably other programs which use GtkNotebook has the same issue.

 Hmm; a lot of programs use it for the Preferences dialog, but they usually
 have a fixed number of pages. Programs with a lot of preferences (e.g.
 GIMP, VLC) tend to use a list or tree control instead of tabs.

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