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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: Plan for "Horizontal spacing & formatting" dialog
From:       Andre Poenitz <andre.poenitz () mathematik ! tu-chemnitz ! de>
Date:       2006-03-31 11:55:49
Message-ID: 20060331115549.GA1027 () millo ! mpi ! htwm ! de
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On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 04:23:33PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
> John Spray wrote:
> > > I have figured out and tested the latex to generate for all
> > > combinations of  input.  Now I am
> > > looking at qt4 designer. :-)
> >
> > Could you please write the controller first, before any UI?  Once
> > frontend code is written, it's a terrible effort to change anything in
> > the controller, since any change to the controller requires modifying
> > existing frontend code as well.
> 
> I think a good starting point, especially if your new on this area, is to use 
> an existing dialog/controller, copy and adapt that. I think vspace could be a 
> prototype in this case.

Do we _really_ need explicit controllers?

Couldn't the UI directly talk to the kernel using LFUNs?

Andre'

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