[haiku-development] Re: Network preference - SSID selection
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 13:59:43 +0200
On 2010-05-12 at 10:51:54 [+0200], Ithamar R. Adema
<ithamar.adema@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently using a patched version of setwep to show the list of
> available SSIDs. While looking at the current Network preference, I
> thought it might be a good intermediate solution, until we get the
> "full" new network preference up, to have a simple way of selecting the
> AP from there.
>
> My suggestion would be to have an extra BMenuField below the interface
> selection that would get enabled on selecting a wireless interface, and
> list the SSIDs available (with the current active one selected/marked).
> When selected, and there is WEP security selected, it would pop up a
> dialog for entering the WEP key.
>
> Would anybody mind me implementing this, so that in short-term we have a
> user-friendly way of selecting an AP to connect to?
>
> It is still my plan to complete the full network preference (in
> src/tests/kits/net/preflet), but to make that perfect and usuable will
> take some more design/work/time, and it would be good to have something
> in place while that is in progress....
Sure, by all means... :-). You can find an AuthenticationPanel which you
can probably tweak to your needs in the WebPositive codebase.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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