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From:	"Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
To:	<cygwin-apps AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject:	RE: setup HEAD update
Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2001 04:41:58 -0600
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> Woohoo, thats great news Gary. Thanks for working on that.
>
> Can I add a couple of notes: So that if you find yourself making design
> choices, you know where I'd *like* to see this going and can have that
> in the back of your head. (I'm not expecting these to be accomplished
> immediately :})
>
> 1) The chooser will eventually need to be able to be resizeable.
> 2) The chooser eventually needs to be able to have a subchooser popup
> (and be passed a sub-selection of packages) to allow users to choose
> what packages to use to satisfy a dependency/what to eliminate to avoid
> a conflict.
>
> Rob

Sounds like the chooser dialog should probably turn into a regular window
instead of a template-based dialog.  That'll work out good, it can probably end
up being derived from my new Window class.

--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer.  Patriot.



> ===
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
> To: <cygwin-apps AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 9:20 PM
> Subject: RE: setup HEAD update
>
>
> > In a related vein, let me just add that I've been working tonight on
> sorting out
> > some of the GUI problems.  In particular I've got a parent/owner
> window now that
> > is getting propagated to all the subdialogs in order to fix their
> > "hide-and-seek" behavior and (hopefully) get the mousewheel working
> > consistently.
> >
> > I haven't broken my head though; you must *really* have been
> frustrated with
> > Gates' cash cow. ;-)
> >
> > --
> > Gary R. Van Sickle
> > Brewer.  Patriot.
> >
> >
> >
>

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