Re: Glom table event

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 22:52 +0100, Alaney Dória wrote:
> From what I've being studding glom code, we could provide an interface 
> for table events like:
>
> OnNewRecord / OnFieldUpdate / OnFillDatabase .

There are probably already appropriate places to respond to these user
events, though I'd have to check and make that clearer.

> Those events can be introduced in Box_Data_Details and Box_Data_List 
> methods. Thought I still need to understand how is supported the running 
> custom python script, so some hint would be very appreciated. For each 
> table we would have the flowing on xml:
>
> <events>
> <event name="event_name" onevent="event">python script</event>
> </events>
>
> I would like to navigate more through this, so I would like to know the 
> best way to tackle this in terms of programming. My first Idea is to 
> make callbacks available on methods such 
> Box_Data_Details::on_flowtable_field_edited, 
> Box_Data_Details::fill_from_database. this is also a first step for 
> supporting notifications in future.

I think we should first clarify what this should achieve, as we are
doing in this bug report:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669468

Sorry for not answering this before. I do not check this mailing list
often enough. I will try to be better.


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