Re: ANNOUNCE: Glom 0.8.37

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

> On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 10:14, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 09:34 -0500, Greg Breland wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 07:04, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > >
> > > 1) Would you consider using a hyper-link instead of the open button to
> > > navigate record relationships?  Basically style the text in ID fields
> > to
> > > look like hyper-links (blue and underlined) and on click open the
> > > specified record.  I work with several apps that use this method and
> > > users take to it like ducks to water as far as knowing what will
> > happen
> > > when they click the field.
> >
> > It seems a little odd, but it is more compact. A patch would be welcome.
>
> Should be a simple patch, just some text styling, cursor change and the
> same nav. code from your button. If I can only get a dev environment
> setup we'll be in business.  I haven't had any luck on my main FC2 box,
> I got to the point that an automake upgrade was required by gtkmm and
> decided I would be better off setting FC4 up on another box.

jhbuild should give you everything you need.

> Here is a quick screen shot of an existing program using this style of
> relationship navigation.  http://65.7.254.152/relationship_link.png
>
>
> > I'm trying to implement that right now. For small numbers of related
> > records, there's already the choces drop down.
>
> Yeah, the drop down won't scale, especially since there doesn't seem to
> be a non-hacked way to populate the drop down on activate last I
> looked.  Your better off using a separate window for the list as you
> will also need a simple search field eventually.  I mean technically a
> combo IS a listview so they should both scale the same, but even with a
> multi-column combo it still just doesn't work well enough.



Murray Cumming
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