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

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:09:57 +0100 CET

> > 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?

Well some badly written one might do so, though yes they should not do
user interaction and let the app decide to retry.

But for stuff like the Sanity translator, well it needs to show the
scanner GUI.

François.

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