/GtkAdaQuoter

Primary LanguageAda

GtkAdaQuoter

A "short-term" project to learn some GtkAda, while also obtaining a useful tool in the process. I even ended up contributing quite a bit of material based on this to the Ada Programming wikibook's section on GtkAda.

What it does

  • Reads from a json-formatted file (currently hardcoded to ~/signatures/all_signatures.json).
    • Expects an array of quote objects.
    • For each object, expects a field for quotation, and optional fields for author, source, and speaker.
  • Pops up a window with the quotes arranged in rows, different fields in columns.
  • Allows one to:
    • add a row beneath the currently highlighted row;
    • delete the currently highlighted row;
    • save all the quotes to a file determined by a file chooser dialog.

To do

  • Figure out how to wrap quotation text while editing the text.
  • Improve Unicode character handling with more points, or bring in an external library.

Done!

  • Add a file chooser dialog for opening the file.

  • Add a "quit" button with mnemonic.

  • Add icons to buttons. Figure out why buttons won't display icons.

    • Turns out this is due to a design decision by GTK developers, Who Know Better Than You (TM).

  • Choose better default window dimensions.

  • Decent behavior when the default input file isn't found.

  • Decent behavior when the input file chooser dialog is canceled.

  • Better default column widths. OBE by configuration file

  • Enable a configuration file to remember:

    • column widths;
    • previously-used paths for opening, saving;
      • Decided to rely on usability of GTK's file chooser.
    • window dimensions.

  • Enable a Ctrl-Q shortcut.

  • Enable a Ctrl-W shortcut.

  • Enable drag-and-drop reordering of quotes.

  • Enable Unicode character handling for the characters I use most.

  • Fix button alignment. Figure out why the button bar does not expand to window edges.

    • Turns out this is due to GTK's unintuitive GTK_Attach_Options. I managed to get it to hit the edges (see commented code) but it's not pretty.

  • Fix the bug that arises when tabbing away from an active but un-edited cell.

    • Turns out GTK really wants the GTK_Tree_View to grab focus after setting the focus on a particular cell, and for some reason the Tab button doesn't do this properly.

  • Fix the bug where closing the window raises GTK alarms.

  • When editing is complete, enable automatic navigation to next cell.

  • Wrap quotation text.

See also

The JsonQuoter submodule is used to obtain, manipulate, and store the quotes.

License

Public domain, insofar as this is compatible with the libraries used.