Re: Informal

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

On one project I worked on, we created a big record we labeled "User
Defaults" with an appropriate update subsystem. Whenever we ran into
something that had some reasonable amount of variance in opinion from the
user community as to what the behavior of something should be, we dumped a
new field in User_Defaults and let them pick what they wanted. You should be
able to put similar stuff into the Registry under the user's ID and recall
it at program startup. It gets you out of the business of trying to convince
everyone that doesn't like what you picked that it was really better or more
people wanted it that way. :-)

MDC
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"Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il> wrote in message
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> Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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> > In article <9m0jth$d6f$1@news.huji.ac.il>, Ehud Lamm says...
> > >
> > >What I had in mind is some radio button like box, which would simply
> > >generate the GNAT command line options, which you currently specify in
> the
> > >options dialog.
> >
> > The GreenHills IDE does that. As an occasional user of that IDE, I'd
> suggest you
> > also try to place some kind of help information about those options
> (tooltip
> > help perhaps?) in that dialog. A big mess of checkboxes can be quite
> daunting,
> > particularly when you don't know what they all do. Its tempting to just
> click
> > them all, in hopes that will optimize best. :-)
> >
> > Note also that when you add in all the gcc and ld options (-cargs
> , -largs), the
> > complete list of options would make for a *huge* dialog (even if you try
> tabbing
> > it).
> >
>
>
> Remember that I am just talking about choosing installed libraries, and
> adding the -l<lib name> switches. I didn't suggest, nor would I like a box
> for choosing all options.
> One thing that may be nice is choosing Debug and getting the -g switch.
[But
> this shoudln't be a part of the library choosing dialog, of course]
>
> Ehud
>
>