Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gnumed config editor

[Ian Haywood]

On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:46:51PM +0100, Hilmar Berger wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I had a look at the ConfigEditor in test-area/shilbert (Thanks Sebastian.)
> I couldn't get it up and running,though, but at least got some impression
> on how it should eventually look like.
> 
> I therefore suggest that we generalize the implementation a little bit,
> allowing for easier updates of config parameters and for other types of
> data representation to the user.
> 
> My suggestions are:
> 1. order all config parameters in some type of hierarchy. This could
> either be implemented by naming conventions (e.g. module.group.parameter)
> or by passing a group name in addition to the parameter name (this could
> be implemented using the 'cookie' entry in gmCfg)
> Reason: allow for automatical grouping of paramers, make parameter names
> more informative

See gmclient_config.sql in CVS. These tables store metadata (config
type, name, description) which can be used to form config widgets on the
fly. It nees more work (and integrating which Karsten's config tables
of course)

Ian