On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 10:19:27PM +0100, Werner Trobin wrote:
> Hi (David)!
> 
> I thought about the Excel-like preview mode you suggested a
> few hours ago and I think I found another solution which is
> really easy to implement and results in the same:
> 
> 1) If there is no preview dialog available, everything stays
>    as it is now.
> 2) If there is a/are some dialog(s) a button is added to the
>    KFD (which says something like "Try with this Settings")
> 3) The KFD is opened *modeless* !!!
> 
> If the user selects a file like table1.csv the dialog (and the
> additional button) shows up. The user changes the settings and
> clicks the "Try..." button. The KFD remains open and the file
> is loaded (always in the same window).
> 
> This should be rather easy to implement as we have access to
> the KFD in KoFilterManager and the open/save stuff is
> centralized in KoMainWindow.
> 
> What do you think of that?

Sounds good!

Not as good as a real preview, but good enough with our current tools :-)

Currently it will painful because of that QDom slowness but it will 
be allright when that's fixed.

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David FAURE
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