Subject: RE: A lurkers inquiry (LSX is down)
From: Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 19 2001 - 12:58:34 CST
LXR still works for me. Only the "Identifier Search" and manual browsing
through the directories works. Sam, do you know how we might get psiconv
included in LXR?
Dom
>From: "Gakko" <gakko@sleepy.dk>
>To: "Dom Lachowicz" <cinamod@hotmail.com>
>CC: "Abiword Developer Mailinglist" <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
>Subject: RE: A lurkers inquiry (LSX is down)
>Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:27:33 +0100
>
>Hi Dom
>
>LSX doesn't seem to be at its best at the moment - in fact it doesn't work
>at all.
>Other than that, it might be a while before I have the time to get and down
>and dirty with the code myself, since I'm on the last two weeks of my
>Masters Thesis at the moment :)
>But if no one else grabs the idea before mid-February or so, I might give
>it
>a try.
>
>Jesper
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dom Lachowicz [mailto:cinamod@hotmail.com]
> > Sent: 19. januar 2001 18:15
> > To: gakko@sleepy.dk
> > Subject: Re: A lurkers inquiry
> >
> >
> > Hi Jesper,
> >
> > I like your idea - esp. the tooltip and the "56/213 (27)" ones. I
> > think that
> > the tooltip idea will be harder to implement. However, if you
> > want to make a
> > patch for either, please go ahead :)
> >
> > You might want to do a search for "scroll" using LXR. Of particular
> > interest, you'll see
> > http://www.abisource.com/lxr/source/abi/src/text/fmt/xp/fv_View.cpp#5038
> >
> > This should help a bit.
> >
> > Dom
> >
> > >From: "Gakko" <gakko@sleepy.dk>
> > >To: <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> > >Subject: A lurkers inquiry
> > >Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:51:58 +0100
> > >
> > >Hi everyone
> > >After having been an avid lurker on this list, I am finally "coming
>out"
> > >with my first set of questions.
> > >I was reading through Dom's imp/exp doc, and I noticed something.
> > >The page count in the status bar always shows the page where the
> > cursor is.
> > >This means that if I browse through a document using the
> > scrollbar, there
> > >is
> > >no indication of where I am at the moment (unless the author uses page
> > >numbers)
> > >Now, this is no problem in a doc of 4 pages, but what if I was
> > >reading/browsing a much larger doc, say > 100 pages.
> > >I checked with my version of Word2K, and it shows the page number of
>the
> > >page in view and not that of the cursor's position.
> > >In my opinion, neither method is satisfactory. I have often been
>annoyed
> > >that Word jumps back to the cursor if I inadvertently press arrow
>up/down
> > >after having browsed using the scrollbar. But I find it very useful to
> > >quickly be able to see which page I'm looking at.
> > >
> > >So my suggestion is this:
> > >How about changing the status text to something like
> > > Page: 56/213 (cursor on 27)
> > >or
> > > Page: 56/213(27)
> > >or
> > > Page: 56(27)/213
> > >or something 4th
> > >
> > >or maybe use another of Word's ideas; show the current page number as a
> > >tool
> > >tip on the scrollbar, when scrolling.
> > >
> > >any comments?
> > >
> > >Jesper Larsen-Ledet
> > >
> > > - If pigs could fly, would they migrate?
> > >
> > >
> >
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