Re: [Gnumed-devel] gmCfg

[Ian Haywood]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 04:43:46PM +0100, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just committed an updated gmCfg to CVS. It now supports
> backend storage of config options (strings, numbers and lists
> of strings). Thus we can now use it to implement things like
> backend based plugin load configuration or widget size
> remembering, etc.
> 
> Please test, use and report.
> 
> Someone with good GUI skills might take on one of those two
> projects:
> 
> 1) GUI plugin configuration
> (currently this is implemented client-side file based)
> 
> Upon right-clicking any of the tabs of the notebook pages a
> popup menu offers the following actions:
> 
> move right
> move left
> unload
> remove
I'll have a go.
> 2) general GnuMed configuration
> 
> This might be a whole page notebook plugin. We could just scan
> the database for "our" config items and create input fields
> based on their type. Explanations _should_ be found in the
> backend, too (-> cfg_template.description and
> cfg_template.cfg_group), subject to the programmers Camelness.
> 
I suggest an table to hold organised tree of configuration items. This
allows easy browsing of all the configuration options. Plus,
a "super-user" mode to change the system defaults. 


Presumably a local 'branch' hard-wired for the client-side
configuration items.

Ian

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