[haiku-development] Re: [RFC] translator extensions : gui, interactive, blocking flags

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:55:29 +0100

On 2009-12-02 at 12:28:27 [+0100], François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> talking about translators, I'd like to introduce some flag in the
> ioExtension message or some other place to avoid some future issues.
> 
> I think we already had some problems with translators using GUI alerts
> when used from command line apps (IIRC we had to add a BApplication to
> /bin/translate).
> 
> It would be nice to tell a Translator if we are ok with it to open a
> (possibly blocking) GUI alert or other stuff.

Maybe I'm missing something, but why should a translator display an alert 
at all?

CU, Ingo

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