From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d2412d6bfc028be4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-22 10:04:44 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!isdnet!wanadoo.fr!opentransit.net!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Informal Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:41:24 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9m0nbj$96e$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <9m0jth$d6f$1@news.huji.ac.il> <9m0m6u$efe$1@news.huji.ac.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 998498483 9422 136.170.200.133 (22 Aug 2001 16:41:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Aug 2001 16:41:23 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12260 Date: 2001-08-22T16:41:23+00:00 List-Id: On one project I worked on, we created a big record we labeled "User Defaults" with an appropriate update subsystem. Whenever we ran into something that had some reasonable amount of variance in opinion from the user community as to what the behavior of something should be, we dumped a new field in User_Defaults and let them pick what they wanted. You should be able to put similar stuff into the Registry under the user's ID and recall it at program startup. It gets you out of the business of trying to convince everyone that doesn't like what you picked that it was really better or more people wanted it that way. :-) MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Ehud Lamm" wrote in message news:9m0m6u$efe$1@news.huji.ac.il... > > Ted Dennison wrote in message > news:ATQg7.10660$2u.75933@www.newsranger.com... > > In article <9m0jth$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 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 > >