Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Re: Making 'persistent' changes to dialog templates

[Luke Hart <lukeh@xxxxxxxx>]

Alex Bligh wrote:

> Luke,
>
> --On 04 May 2006 09:20 +0100 Luke Hart <lukeh@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I'm finding the descenders of the static text entries in all of the
> > export dialog pages are cropped off, also on my laptop the ends of the
> > anti-aliasing options in the 'bitmap size' page are clipped. You can
> > bring up the export dialog by pressing ctrl-shift-e (or via the file
> > menu), and the tabbed dialog is displayed after you enter a file name.
> > The dialog templates are stored in bmapprev.xrc.
> >
> > I was actually thinking that the best way of fixing the problem was to
> > actually convert the dialogs to use sizers, since they aren'y very
> > complicated.
>
>
> Sure, if you want to do the conversion, that's fine. If you could
> rename the file (svn mv) that would be great as my converter will
> then not overwrite it. Similarly if you want to take ownership
> of the "strings" file, please rename that too. Mmmm.. perhaps we
> should have a naming convention for the ones I've converted,
> something like "cvt-xxxx" so that people know not to edit them manually.
>
> How do you propose to keep the tabs the same size or doesn't it matter
> under wx?
>
> The only problem is if we want to make "global" changes (less common
> in dialogs than in bars I suspect) we can't pick them up automatically.
>
> Alex

Alex,

Will I have to use new dialog IDs for the converted dialog templates? If 
not how will I avoid collisions with the auto-generated reosurce?

I've converted the whole of an xrc file, so if it's possible to just 
remove the rc from the files to translate that maybe the best way forward.

   Luke