Re: customization

[D-Man <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 11:28:48AM -0800, Mo DeJong wrote:
| On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, D-Man wrote:
| 
| > I would like to change a few things about SN's gui, but I don't think
| > there are any options for it yet :
| > 
| > 	o always add an Editor view to Class and XRef views
| > 	o Editor view is always 80 characters wide when created
| > 	o Editor displays in reverse video (like gvim does)
| > 	o Editor is read-only (a viewer really, not an editor)
| > 
| > I really don't mind hard-coding these prefs into my copy, but I don't
| > know either Tcl or Tk.  If someone would show me what to add, and
| > where I would greatly appreciate it.
| 
| Well, we can give you general tips on how to implement the
| changes but you are going to have to actually go into the
| code and get it working.

Of course, this is what I was asking for.

| 
| For example, that "Editor is read-only" can be done by setting
| the -state option of the editor's text widget to disabled.
| You would need to add a command like:
| 
| $text configure -state disabled

Ok, got that.  Line 118 in share/gui/multiedit.tcl

| 
| The "reverse video" thing should not be hard at all. Just
| set the background to black and the fg to green. Here
| is a quick wish (Tk) script to get you started.
| 
| $ wish
| % text .t -bg black -fg green
| % pack .t

That worked, but I found the highlight colors were to dark for my
taste.  I put it back to the default white background.

| 
| > Also, I would like gvim to open up at the proper line of code when I
| > double-click in a view.  I didn't find the cl option in the help
| > files,  and also I don't know what format string specifier I would
| > need to use in the "External Editor" option.  Could someone give me
| > some pointer here too?
| 
| The docs have some info about each of the format strings
| you can use for an "External Editor".
| 
| Mo DeJong
| Red Hat Inc

I couldn't figure out which function to call to put the Editor view
into the Class and XRef views.  I did find what appears to be the
constructor for the Class and XRef views though.

Also, I couldn't get the Editor to be 80 chars wide by default.  It is
much smaller (around 60 characters).  I tried changing line 119 in
multiedit.tcl to have  -width 80  instead of  -width $width , but it
didn't seem to have any effect.

-D