Re: [Gnumed-devel] multiple gmDemographics.py

[Ian Haywood]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 01:31:53 +0100
Sebastian Hilbert <address@hidden> wrote:

> What is the deal with the two copies of gmDemographics in wxpython and 
> wxpython/patient ?
> 
> The look pretty much the same.

This is legacy of the fact that Gnumed has two layout managers, the 'basic' one 
that provides the 
notebook tabs across the bottom, and the 'fancy' one that currently resides in 
the "Patient Details"
tab, based on Richard's VB client. It's plugins reside in wxpython/patient.
[as an aside, making gnumed the only package AFAIK where plugins have their own 
plugins]

Originally, we planned that stuff that related to an individual patient would 
sit in "Patient Details",
everything else (such as Contacts) would sit outside on the notebooks tabs [in 
Richard's client, Contacts
is a standalone application] As you can see, this rule is respected more in  
the breech than the observance,
with stuff all over the place.

Some developers (Horst, myself) think having two layout managers is stupid, 
however no consensus
has emerged about which one should win out.

Personally I prefer Richard's, but I would rather for the notebook tabs alone 
over the status quo, which I'm 
sure would thoroughly confuse new users of gnumed. 

My suggestion would be to allow users to select the layout manager in 
gnumed.conf. This is not difficult as the plugin API
is already quite generic, all we have to do is split gmGuiMain.py into the 
'stump' main module and a gmNotebookManager
module.

Ian

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