Re: New options dialog

Hi

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
<guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At pgday.eu 2010, Dave and I discussed about the options dialog. We
> would like to make it look like the Visual Studio options dialog.
> Something like this one:
>
>  http://www.timvw.be/wp-content/images/msbuildverbosity.gif
>
> So, tonight, I've been thinking about it and how to use the treeview,
> and here is what I propose:
>
> General
>  Help path
>        (PG help path, EDB help path, GP help path, Slony help path)
>  Binaries path
>        (PG bin path, EDB bin path, GP bin path, Slony bin path,
>         Ignore server/utility version mismatches)
>  Miscellanous
>        (System schemas)
> Browser
>  Display
>        (list of objects, Default button)
>  Properties
>    Table
>        (Count rows if estimated less than)
>  Miscellanous
>        (Font, Confirm object deletion, Show system objects in the
>         treeview, Show users for privileges, Show object properties on
>         double click in the treeview)
> Query tool
>  Query editor
>        (Font, Indent characters, Use spaces instead of tabs, Copy SQL
>         from main window to query tool)
>  Results grid
>        (Result copy quoting, Result copy quote character, Result copy
>         field seperator, Show NULL values as <NULL>)
>  Query file
>        (Read and write Unicode UTF-8 files, Write BOM for UTF files,
>         Do not prompt for unsaved files on exit)
>  Favourites
>        (File path)
>  Macros
>        (File path)
>
>  History file
>        (File path, Maximum queries to store, Maximum size of a stored
>         query)
> pgAgent
>        (Maximum rows to retrieve)
> Colours
>  Foreground/Background
>  Caret
>  Syntax highlighting
>  Status Window
> Miscellanous
>  Guru hints
>        (Do not show gutu hints; Reset guru hints)
>  Logging
>        (Logfile, Log level)
>
> Comments?

Seems OK.

> BTW, does anyone know what "max characters per column" is supposed to
> do? AFAICT, it's not used in the current code.

It's supposed to be the maximum length of a value that we'll try to
display in the Query Tool results or the Table Editor. If a value is
longer, it's supposed to not display it (and probably display some
non-editable message instead).

I suppose "Max characters per cell" would be better.

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