[Scilab-Dev] Adding new properties to graphic objects

[Stéphane Mottelet]

Hello,

I just want to give my impressions about the tedious task of adding a 
new property to a graphic object, e.g. here a "SnapToTicks" property to 
the Slider, directly mapped to the SnapToTicks property of the Java 
widget: besides two makefile and the modification to the documentation I 
had to create two and modify  *11* C,C++ and Java sources files (see the 
CR @ https://codereview.scilab.org/#/c/19937/):

scilab/modules/graphic_objects/src/scripts/propertiesMap.properties
scilab/modules/graphic_objects/src/java/org/scilab/modules/graphic_objects/uicontrol/Uicontrol.java 

scilab/modules/graphic_objects/src/java/org/scilab/modules/graphic_objects/xmlloader/XMLDomLoader.java 

         scilab/modules/graphics/macros/%h_p.sci
scilab/modules/graphics/src/c/getHandleProperty/GetHashTable.c
scilab/modules/graphics/src/c/getHandleProperty/SetHashTable.c
         scilab/modules/gui/includes/GetUicontrol.h
         scilab/modules/gui/includes/SetUicontrol.h
         scilab/modules/gui/sci_gateway/c/sci_uicontrol.c
         scilab/modules/gui/src/cpp/GetUicontrolSnapToTicks.cpp (NEW)
         scilab/modules/gui/src/cpp/SetUicontrolSnapToTicks.cpp (NEW)
scilab/modules/gui/src/java/org/scilab/modules/gui/bridge/slider/SwingScilabSlider.java
         scilab/modules/hdf5/src/cpp/handle_properties.hxx

Frankly, don't you find that it sucks ?

Many properties could be added at the Scilab level (by using macros) if 
we had an overloading mechanism e.g when the user types something like 
h.newprop=stuff. Don't you find that such a mechanism could be useful ?

S.


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Stéphane Mottelet
Ingénieur de recherche
EA 4297 Transformations Intégrées de la Matière Renouvelable
Département Génie des Procédés Industriels
Sorbonne Universités - Université de Technologie de Compiègne
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