Jeff Jahr has suggested adding some very useful functions to the "Add
color to protocols" dialog box. Here is the issue: there are currently
seven buttons (excluding the up/down filter ordering buttons) on the
window:
New (new filter)
Edit (edit a filter)
OK (Apply changes and exit window)
Cancel (Exit window -- no apply)
Apply (Apply changes)
Save (Save filters so they are re-loaded on startup)
Delete (Delete a selected filter)
Jeff's suggestion might add;
Save As (to save in an arbitrary file, so one could have groups of
filters)
Load (Load a group of filters)
Clear (clear the list of filters, probably before a load)
Get (Get the display filter )
The latter might be best as the default for creating a new filter. That
is, when a new filter is created, if there is a display filter, use its
string for the new filter.
Anyway, my question is how best to do the buttons. I could use a
toolbar widget and put them all in a row, or I could just put in lots of
buttons, or I could use pull-down menus or a regular menu bar. I
personally like some sort of buttons best. Maybe I could have a mneu or
pull-down with
Filter: New, Load, Save, Save As, ClearAll, Get
And then buttons for OK, Cancel, Apply (Which are "general purpose") and
Edit, Delete (Which operate on selected filters.)
What do you folks think?
--john
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