Re: [Gretl-devel] CVS news
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 20.01.2014 16:07, schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2014, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>
>> Perhaps a greyed-out drop-down list of file formats that only becomes
>> activated when the *.* filter is chosen.
>
> Thinking about this some more: I wouldn't object to a
"post-processing"
> step, whereby if the user actually selects a filename without an
> extension, or with an unrecognized extension (something I'm claiming is
> going to be a rare event), we put up a dialog asking him to select from a
> list of possible formats, with the option of cancelling. As in
>
> "
> 'foo': this file is
>
> * delimited text
> * an octave file
> ...
> "
Yeah I was going to ask about Octave, too, since it isn't clear to me if
there really is a spec about its datafile extension.
Octave and JMulTi are potential problems. (BTW, is there still a case for
handling JMulTi data?).
Could the extra dialog be avoided by another selection item in the file
open dialog? (Greyed out if not needed.) IMHO that would be better than
multiple windows popping up one after another, but that's (a) my taste
and (b) not sure if it's feasible.
It's technically feasible but IMO it would be "fussy", given that we're
talking about a corner case. In general, yes, an integrated dialog is
nicer than a sequence of dialogs but I think a second dialog is justified
in this case.
Allin