[Geany-devel] project build tab - Re: GTK+ Version Bump to 2.18 - gtkbuilder and 2.16

[Lex Trotman]

On 19 October 2011 23:43, Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On 18/10/2011 17:30, Nick Treleaven wrote:
>>
>> On 18/10/2011 00:36, Matthew Brush wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11-10-17 04:27 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yes, the build tab is generated at runtime because it has variable
>>>> length (set by the number_xx_menu_items prefs).
>>>>
>>>> Possibly it could be a treeview, but that would change the whole
>>>> operation of the build tabs and would need discussion with Nick who
>>>> has strong ideas on the subject :)
>>
>> Not really, I'm just opposed to replacing groups of commands with a list
>> of commands as I think this is worse usability.
>>
>> I think a treeview for each command group wouldn't really change things
>> and might look better. Is there a way to show a label with mnemonic in a
>> treeview column? Not crucial but nice to have.
>
> Actually one treeview would be better, but I think the error regex fields
> would need to be separate from the tree. Perhaps grouped underneath it. It
> could look something like:
>
> Current filetype: C
>
>   Label      Command            Directory     Reset
>   -----      -------            ---------     -----
> \/ Filetype build commands
>   ...
> \/ Independent build commands
>   ...
> \/ Execute commands
>   ...
>
> Error regular expressions:
>  Filetype:    [                ]
>  Independent: [                ]
>

WARNING, WARNING !!!!  Thats exactly what I was thinking Nick, we AGREE!!!! :D

>
> I've added a label for current filetype above (this could be done
> separately). This is to avoid repeating the filetype name in multiple
> places, and I think it's clearer.

Good idea.

And of course the extra non-filetype execute group we want to add just
tacks on the end :)

Now to get enough time.

Cheers
Lex