Re: ANN: XRay 1.0b2 avaliable for download
Re: ANN: XRay 1.0b2 avaliable for download
- Subject: Re: ANN: XRay 1.0b2 avaliable for download
- From: Rainer Brockerhoff <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 12:41:04 -0300
At 16:06 +0200 on 04/10/2001, Markus Hitter wrote:
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Am Donnerstag, 4. Oktober 2001 um 14:49 schrieb Rainer Brockerhoff:
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>I'll look into it, but this raises a UI question: is it OK to display data in one format in an editable field ("drxwrxwrxw") but accept editing only in another format ("777")?
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Why should it be allowed to edit only in the "777" format? I'd suggest: If a user replaces the "d-rw-..." string with "644" and leaves the field, it jumps back to the "dwr--..." format according to the value "644" ("-rw-r--r--", then).
I understood you meant that. If I get around to doing it, that'll be the way.
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> I think at least it should accept changing one of the 'r's to '-', for instance... but then I'd have to write a special formatter to not let people change (or even select) the 'd'...
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Simply put it into an other, non-editable text field, right in front of the editable field (as an idea).
As I'll probably have to develop a similar thing for the filename/extension fields - where part of it is uneditable depending on what you're editing - this might be feasible.
At 16:09 +0100 on 04/10/2001, Ondra Cada wrote:
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Actually, the whole problem seems strange to me -- I would say that anyone
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who really wants to edit -rwxrwxrwx (not speaking of 0777!) would use chown
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anyway ;)
My point exactly ;-). But if enough people want it, I'll try to fit it in... giving feedback for wrong entries would have to be just a beep, I guess.
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But if you *DO* want to see a very nice, very intelligible, and *VERY*
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efficient way of GUI-editing of access rights, see the OpenStep's Access
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Rights Inspector.
I certainly *do*. Ondra, could you possibly send me a screenshot of that in private (or an URL where to find that?). AFAIK there are no OpenStep boxes in my town (or country, for that matter :-)).
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