Re: Notes tab

Am 03.12.2004 14:58:18 schrieb(en) Nicholas Cole:
> I was very excited to see a new tab appear when I
> fired up pybliographic 1.2.4 [Python 2.3.4, Gtk
> 2.4.13, PyGTK 2.4.1] to see that a tab had been added
> marked "Notes" to the entry edit box.  But it appears
> as just a grey box.

I see.  For a while I had some standard fields (Note etc.)  
always displayed, even when there was no text for them, but at a  
certain point I found this confusing :-)

In the meantime I came along a better design and I'll probably  
change it.

If I click on the "New" button at
> the bottom, I get the following error on the console.
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/pybliographer/Pyblio/GnomeUI/Editor.py",
> line 1166, in add_cb
>     self.editor.add_cb (button, data)
>   File  "/usr/share/pybliographer/Pyblio/GnomeUI/Editor.py",
> line 632, in add_cb
>     self.lt_new()
>   File "/usr/share/pybliographer/Pyblio/GnomeUI/Editor.py",
> line 789, in lt_new
>     d = LT_Dialog_1(parent = self.w.get_toplevel ())
>   File  "/usr/share/pybliographer/Pyblio/GnomeUI/Editor.py",
> line 1361, in __init__
>     self.value = self.fields[0]
> IndexError: list index out of range

self.fields at this point contains the list of eligible  
(LongText) fields, so if index 0 is out of range, it must be  
empty.

Probable cause: the configuration variable base/fields has been  
changed by the user; it is then stored in .pybrc.conf, and *no  
attempt is made to upgrade this file when the configuration data  
set is modified*.

The following are two possible courses of user actions:
1. manually delete .pybrc.conf (»rm .pybrc.conf«), that means 	    
however, that *all* changes that the user made are lost;
2. manually change .pybrc.conf by means of the configuration  
dialog (using the »settings/fields« menu entry): add or change  
the pertinent fields with a type of »Long Text«.

For future releases it would perhaps be sensible to  
automatically perform such upgrades.

Thank you for your comments,

	Peter



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