$Id: Changes,v 1.12 2005/07/20 21:13:46 joern Exp $
Revision history and release notes for Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory:
0.56 Wed Jul 20, 2005, joern
Features:
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::Rules:
- added 'zero', 'non-zero', 'positive-zero-integer',
'negative-zero-integer', 'positive-zero-float',
'negative-zero-float' rules.
- added special 'or-empty' rule, refer to the man page
for details.
- added 'executable-command' rule.
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::Context:
- added get_object_attr() helper method to retrieve
a specific application object attribute
- added 'accessor' option to the ->add_object() method
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::Widget:
- added 'label_for' attribute, so auto-generated labels
can be bound to specific widgets as well.
- added 'avtive_cond' and 'active_depends' attributes
for direct activity control of the widget.
- added 'changed_hook_after'
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::Popup:
- added 'items' attribute for static popup content
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::Popup:
- default 'scale' to 1 of no other scaling options
are given, images would be invisible without this.
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory:
- added 'with_cancel' option to the ->open_confirm_window()
helper method
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::CheckButtonGroup:
- dimensions can be configured through application
object attributes. Row and/or column labels may
be added.
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::Label:
- added bold option.
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::Layout:
- center button icons/labels.
Bugfixes:
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::Combo: rule checking didn't work.
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::Widget: rule checking in synchronized
FormFactories didn't work if no object attribute was
associated with the widget
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::Table: due to missing outer whitespace
truncation parsing of some table layouts was messed up.
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::List: dropped "selects_object"
feature introduced in 0.55 because this can be easily done
by defining attribute dependencies.
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::Layout: setting a label group
didn't work for Label widgets, only for implicite labels
set through the Widget's label attribute.
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::Loader: VSeparator setup was missing.
0.55 Mon Jul 11, 2005, joern
Features:
- Added a fully functional tutorial program (a simple music
database) which makes use of a lot of simple and advanced
Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory features. Not documented yet, but
nevertheless a good example to learn how Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory
works. More details in tutorial/README.
- On demand loading of widget modules saves some memory
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::Context
- pass object aggregation information to define
dependencies between objects. This way all dependent
objects update automatically if their parent object
changes.
- defining constant attribute accessors is now possible,
e.g. for simple Combo presets not changing at runtime.
- new method set_object_attr() sets an specific application
object attribute and triggers corresponding GUI updates
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::List
- new attribute "selects_object" for lists representing
an index of objects to select one of them. The
corresponding widgets are updated automatically
once the list selection changes.
- new attribute "visible" to control visibility of columns
- new attribute "no_header" to suppress list headers
- new attribute "attr_select_column" to have specific
column values instead of selected indices in the
"attr_select" attribute
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::Label: declare an arbitrary Label
widget as the label of another widget, so this label is
deactivated/activated together with the assigned widget
automatically, even in complex layouts.
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::Popup: additional data model,
two dimensional array to define ordered key/value pairs.
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::Window: title may be controlled
by an application object.
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::Widget: moved get_widget() from
Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory to here, so it's available for
all widgets, not only in a FormFactory.
Bugfixes:
- Removed ok_hook() from Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::Intro
documentation, which was never implemented that way.
- Tooltips on combo entries didn't work.
0.54 Sun May 29, 2005, joern
Features:
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::Table now handles arbitrary
alignments of widgets in the cells.
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory: new convenience method
change_mouse_cursor().
- Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::Layout: no frames around
forms if placed on a notebook page
0.53 Sun Apr 10, 2005, joern
Features:
- $ff->get_widget($name) added.
- $context->remove_object($name) added.
- DialogButtons: control the set of buttons displayed.
Bugfixes:
- Timestamp: placeholders were mixed up, so the calculated
timestamp was nonsense for some values.
- Widget's changed_hook wasn't called at the appropriate
time for some widgets.
0.52 Sun Feb 06, 2005, joern
Bugfixes:
- Popup: didn't consider custom attribute activity conditions
in all cases.
- Container: apply_changes() didn't recurse correctly into
all children
Features:
- New widgets:
- CheckButtonGroup: a table of check buttons representing
a multiple selection of predefined values.
- GtkWidget: support arbitrary Gtk widgets which aren't worth
an own Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory module.
- TextView: a Gtk2::TextView
- Timestamp: Entries to enter correct timestamps down to minute
level, while calculating internally with unix timestamps.
- FormFactory: added parent_ff attribute
- FormFactory: added hide parameter to open() and show() method
- FormFactory: added open_confirm_window() method
- FormFactory: added get_image_path() method
- Button: added stock attribute
- Combo: added presets attribute
- DialogButtons: buttons may now be controlled with the object
attribute's value
- HBox/VBox: added no_frame attribute
- List: added update_selection_only attribute
- Proxy: get_attr/set_attr consider object.attr notation
accordingly and switch to the proxy of the correspondent
object for convenience.
- Table: warn if table layout string contains tab characters
- Widget: added gtk_properties_widget
- Widget: added label_markup attribute
- Widget: added 'type' option to show_error_message() and
error windows are now modal.
=> WARNING: incompatible API change!
- Window: added closed_hook attribute
0.51 Mon Dec 27, 2004, joern
Bugfixes:
- Container: on cleanup the internal content list was
set to undef instead to [].
Features:
- Context: attr_depends_href extended, so it accepts a list
reference of attributes an attribute depends on, not
only a single attribute.
- Image: with a constant scale of 1 all magic regarding scale
calculation is switched off
- Window: if a window has a FormFactory parent, FormFactory->close()
is called automatically when the window is destroyed.
- Container: Print a better error message if a child of a
container isn't defined.
Notes:
- Added GPL LICENSE file to the distribution
0.50 Sat Nov 20, 2004, joern
for comprehensive online documentation.
WARNING: API is not stable yet and may change incompatibly.