Re: New options dialog

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> wrote:
> On 15 August 2011 10:29, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 09:40 +0000, Dave Page wrote:
>> > 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.
>> >
>>
>> Here it is. Patch attached, and a few screenshots.
>
> Nice work Guillaume.  I didn't see the original discussion about this so I
> didn't have any expectations, but this looks really good.  This also means
> the options dialogue is able to add as many options as are needed in future
> without cramming them all in one tab, or having dozens of tabs to scroll
> through.
> +1
> So this is effectively the same way that LibreOffice/OpenOffice does it :)

Oooh, shiny. Nice work Guillaume.

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