[Thuban-devel] Re: RfD: Support for layer specific resources

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 05:02:28PM +0200, Bernhard Herzog wrote:
> The main problem with the Show Table command is that it's not grayed out
> in the context menu for non-shape layers.  It is grayed out in the main
> menu, so it should be easy to do it in the context menu too.  Jan is
> already looking into that.

and fixed that in HEAD and thuban-1-0-branch now :-)

> For the properties dialog, a registry like that for the renderer would
> be an easy way to define new layer type specific properties dialogs.
> 
> The existing properties dialog should perhaps be split in two, one for
> the shape layers and one for raster layers, instead of having one which
> simply doesn't have some of the widgets of the other.  It might be a
> good idea ot have a common base class for the property dialogs which has
> the widgets for the common base class BaseLayer.

these two actions look quite sensible to me.

Joey: Do you think you could develop patches for this (first the dialog
separation, then based on that, the registry for properties dialogs like
for renderer)?

	Jan

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