Customizable prints progress

[Gehad Elrobey]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 22 August 2015 at 19:20, Gehad Elrobey <gehadelrobey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> can we eventually support HTML/CSS editing of the statistics template,
> >> for instance - adding/removing table columns such as year.avg_depth,
> >> year.max_depth etc?
> >> does that mean we need another Custom.html?
> >>
> >
> > We need to add Custom.html template in printing_templates/statistics, So
> we
> > can saved edited statistics template there, unless we support in-place
> > editing.
> >
> >>
> >> actually, this opens some questions about the Custom.html
> >> concept...something that i have missed.
> >>
> >> how can the user edit, say the 6-dives template and save it from
> >> Subsurface? it always saves to the Custom.html template and editing in
> >> place is not possible. of course this is nice in a way, as they can't
> >> modify the bundled templates but i think *they should* and it's their
> >> problem if they make one of the bundled templates bad.
> >>
> >
> > I though of this, my solution was that they can always export the custom
> > template into subsurface template directory with the name they prefer
> and it
> > will be automatically added to the list, Also it is possible to export
> the
> > template anywhere then import it which will save it to the list.
> >
> >>
> >> editing in-place is the way to go, which means that if the user edits
> >> "Six Dives.html" and presses "save" the actual "Six Dives.html" is
> >> saved - this removes the need for Custom.html.
> >> what do you think? sorry for the late change request, but hopefully
> >> that won't break a lot of things.
> >>
> >
> > I think this will make the user interface more intuitive, but we will
> not be
> > able to handle overwriting the bundled templates (We can still show a
> > warning message).
> >
>
> i agree, that it does become more intuitive as Custom.html is a bit
> confusing.
>
> sometimes giving slightly more freedom to the user isn't that bad. if
> they lose a bundled template they can always re-install the whole app
> in the same folder.
> ...and to make a copy of a bundled template they can just Export in
> the same folder with a new name e.g. MyNewTemplate.html.
>
> let's do it with in-place editing and show the following warning if
> any of the bundled templates is about to be saved by the user:
> <Warning sign> (if possible)
> "You are about to modify a template bundled with Subsurface. Do you
> want to save your changes?"
> <Save>, <Cancel>
>
> For non-bundled templates:
> "Do you want to save your changes?"
> <Save>, <Cancel>
>
> this should include "statistics/Default.html" and it will be nice to
> be able to edit statistics templates as well.
>
>
yes, that's a good solution, I will work on that and ll send updates when I
finish.

-- 
regards,

Gehad
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