Re: PEAR Installer GUI project

Great, this is just the kind of interface I've been fantasizing about. It looks very much like Ximian red-carpet, which IMHO is great. - Stig On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 17:14, Alan Knowles wrote: > Ok gimp attack :) - > > these are designs not screen shots :) > > http://docs.akbkhome.com/Frontend/installer_details.jpg > http://docs.akbkhome.com/Frontend/installer_basic.jpg > > > >>A PEAR config tab - where do want to install etc..... > >> > >> > > > >Yup. There should be plenty of information you can get from PEAR_Config > >for implementing a config tab. You're able to determine if a parameter > >should be accompagnied by a file selector, a dropdown/select box or a > >simple checkbox. > > > Actually - as programmers we love adding config stuff, and automating > the 'build options', however if you look at mozilla/and some of the > better gnome apps. (and probably the better mac ones), config stuff is > usually hand designed.. and has to be very carefully looked at.. > > I'm looking at doing something similar to mozilla's prefs, tree + nice > simple interface that changes about 2/3 items and has loads of text to > explain what it's for.... > > ** one thought is that it may eventually do php.ini????/ - but not now.... > > >it may be advantagous to add progress information - eg. if you are > > > > > >installing a package that auto downloads dependancies > > > >$this->ui->progress_dialog('Transfering 1/2',1) > >$this->ui->progress_dialog('Transfering 2/2',2) > >$this->ui->progress_dialog_close(); > > > > > > > >A status indication callback is already in place in the downloading > >function (PEAR_Common::downloadHttp). > > > Will look into... > > > > > > > > >>The other issue that make life difficult is that code like this in > >>PEAR_Remote will totally freeze the user interface if the application > >>(you have to either use while(gtk::event_pending()) > >>gtk::main_interation(); > >>or use gtk_input_add($fp,array(&$this,'got_data')); > >> > >> > >> } > >> while (trim(fgets($fp, 2048)) != ''); // skip rest of headers > >> while ($chunk = fread($fp, 10240)) { > >> $response .= $chunk; > >> } > >> > >>and again break the method up - so that it call > >>this->ui->fetch_data($fp,array(&$this,'tranfer_completed')); > >> > >>thats all for this morning.. > >> > >> > > > >Right. More Frontend class fodder then. > > > > - Stig > > > > > > > > > >