Re: [Libreoffice] [MHST][Easy Hack] Get current page number for printing

Hi Christoph, all,

On 07/19/2011 12:20 PM, Christoph Noack wrote:
> Hi TaTung, all!
>
> Sorry for answering so late ...
>
> Am Samstag, den 16.07.2011, 21:40 +0700 schrieb Ta Duc Tung:
> > On 07/16/2011 07:29 PM, Christoph Noack wrote:
> [...]
> > > > We are trying to hack into this easy hack
> > > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38830
> > > > We're still studying source code. We have 2 questions:
> > > Great!
> [...]
>
> > > >        2. How to add another RadioButton in to print dialog?
> > > >            We can enable and disable existing RadioButton like All, Pages,
> > > > or Selection but it's still mystery for adding new RadioButton. We want
> > > > to add a Current Page radio button just below Pages radio button.
> > > >
> > > > Anyone please help us :)
> > > Is there a specific reason to use another radio button? OOo once added
> > > the current page number to the "Pages" field - which worked okay for
> > > many users.
> > I think it will be more intuitive and easier to use if we have a Current
> > Page radio button there. As a beginner, I won't aware that the number in
> > the text box is current page because normally, I scarcely care which
> > page I was.
> Okay, that's a good point - when we've designed the today's printing
> dialog, we tried hard to get rid of many of the old options to make it
> both useful and clean (although current page was never part of that).
>
> I've noticed that you already provided a patch for that - thanks! And
> here I'd like to ask you to help me to get some understanding ...
> reason: I lack C++ coding skills.
>
> So ...
>        * Where is "Current page" located? Between "Pages" and
>          "Selection", I assume, or?
In my patch, I've just implement as OOO did. So for now, it's still no 
"Current page" there :D But I will try to put in between "Pages" and 
"Selection"

>        * Please take care that the dialog does not grow in height (too
>          much), since it won't be usable on netbooks.
OK
>        * Does this patch also provide "Current Page" for Draw/Impress?
>          This would be essential for consistency. If yes, then the
>          terminology for Impress only) is different: "Current Slide".
>          Only for Calc and Math it is not needed or makes less sense.
>
> Could you please provide some hints to me? Thanks!
I'm still modifying Writer only. :) After Writer, I will go to Draw/Impress.
> Mmh, looking at a recent LibO version, I notice that somebody moved ...
> the "reverse order" option to a weird position (makes no sense, breaks
> spacing etc.) But that's another story.
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
Cheers,
Ta Tung