From quanta-devel  Fri Mar 04 10:01:48 2005
From: Eric Laffoon <sequitur () easystreet ! com>
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:01:48 +0000
To: quanta-devel
Subject: Re: [quanta-devel] DTEP dialog
Message-Id: <200503040201.48924.sequitur () easystreet ! com>
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On Friday 04 March 2005 12:19 am, Andras Mantia wrote:
> On Friday 04 March 2005 09:59, Jens Herden wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just used the new DTEP dialog to see what is in the description for
> > CSS.
>
> You know, that dialog is still quite cryptic, and one without much
> experience can still fail to create a good description.rc. But it's a
> convenient way for us (or for me)...

Great! When Andras says it's cryptic we can all look knowingly at each other 
as to why we are scratching our heads. ;-)
>
> > I wonder what should be in the field "complete attributes after"
> > because I can find a line
> >  AttributeAutoCompleteAfter = :
> > in the description.rc but I don't see the : in the dialog?
>
> Well, if you write the wrong name for the entry
> (AttributeAutoCompletionAfter) you cannot expect to read the right
> value. Luckily the same wrong entry was used to write back the value,
> so it doesn't cause a big loss, just it doesn't do what it pretends.
>
> > I am also a little confused about structure delimiting because I get
> > "\{|\}" at the screen but the context help and the description.rc
> > show "\\{|\\}" . I suppose there is some kind of conversion before
> > the value is displayed so I would suggest to adjust the context help
> > to what actually should be typed and not what should be in the file.
>
> I can do it only in HEAD. :-( The conversion is BTW automatic somewhere
> inside Qt/KDE so this is why I didn't notice.
>
> > Short sidenote: Why do we need the beginning, the end and the regex?
> > Is there any case where the regex is different than the combination
> > of beginning and end or could the regex just get constructed from the
> > beginning and end?
>
> Good question. And I'm sure that I had an answer for this in the past
> (as I also wanted to get rid of StructRx), but I cannot remember now.
> Right now I'd say that we don't need the StructRx in the description.rc
>
> Andras
I vaguely recall you saying StructRx was deprecated. I'm sure if I searched 
the archives I could pull it up but I worked on the site most of the day and 
my eyes want to shut.

Eric
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