MAPClient

Generic config dialog

Asked by Glenn Ramsey

This is more of a suggestion than a question.

Currently there is a flexible and general way of getting configuration information from the user by creating a Qt dialog. However this is quite low level and for some (maybe most) plugin developers an unecessary burden. It seems that many plugins will just require configuration in the form of key-value pairs so it should be possible to create a generic dialog for this.

I imagine that this could be somewhat similar to Firefox's about:config page. In Qt in could be done with a QListView or QTableView. The plugin developer passes it a dictionary of the keys with default values and gets back a dictionary with the user's input.

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Hugh Sorby (h-sorby) said : 		#1

In 0.10.0 I have implemented a generation scheme that relies on entries input into a table or advanced list. This is available in the Plugin Wizard.

Whilst not a generic configuration dialog it does provide a way for plugin creators to easily get a key, value pair type configuration dialog with very little effort.

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