Re: gEDA: Attributes

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda-at-NOSPAMseul_dot_org>]

Hi,


>In my experimental version of gwave, I made menus configurable from guile
>by evicting the entire menu-building code out of C and into scheme, and
>using guile-gtk to build the menus themselves.  Constructing Gtk+ menus is
>much easier when you build a few little helper function anyway (whether in
>C or guile), so I would imagine that a suitable guile function could
>construct and attach a menu item, and also bind a keystroke to the same
>action procedure. 


	Hmmm.. that is a thought.  I do have a question about this.  Did
you init gtk from the C or guile side?  I've long since thought about 
having the ability to create windows from the guile side but I want to 
do all the setup and real work from the C side.  Maybe I should get off of
my lazy butt and try it. :)


>
>This also forced me to go through and make sure that all primitives I
>wanted accessible from menus were exported to guile.  The only remnant of
>menus in my C code is the creation of an empty Gtk+ menu bar in each
>window. 


	This shouldn't be a problem, since all the callbacks are already 
visible from scheme.  The keymapping code is already mostly scheme.
What I don't want is another scheme structure/list which replicates the
key mapping info; ie I would like to have one structure which defines:
mapping of keystrokes to action (the existing) and the names of the
pulldown items all in one place.  Tricky due to how the current system 
works. 


>
>And speaking of gwave, my day job is showing signs of easing up to just
>the normal level of chaos shortly, so I hope to release a new version of
>the waveform viewer sometime soon.

	Looking forward to it. 

	Thanks for the ideas.

								-Ales