[Libreoffice] [MHST][Easy Hack] Get current page number for printing

[Ta Duc Tung]

Hi Christoph, all,

On 07/19/2011 12:20 PM, Christoph Noack wrote:
> Hi TaTung, all!
>
> Sorry for answering so late ...
>
> Am Samstag, den 16.07.2011, 21:40 +0700 schrieb Ta Duc Tung:
>> On 07/16/2011 07:29 PM, Christoph Noack wrote:
> [...]
>>>> We are trying to hack into this easy hack
>>>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38830
>>>> We're still studying source code. We have 2 questions:
>>> Great!
> [...]
>
>>>>        2. How to add another RadioButton in to print dialog?
>>>>            We can enable and disable existing RadioButton like All, Pages,
>>>> or Selection but it's still mystery for adding new RadioButton. We want
>>>> to add a Current Page radio button just below Pages radio button.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone please help us :)
>>> Is there a specific reason to use another radio button? OOo once added
>>> the current page number to the "Pages" field - which worked okay for
>>> many users.
>> I think it will be more intuitive and easier to use if we have a Current
>> Page radio button there. As a beginner, I won't aware that the number in
>> the text box is current page because normally, I scarcely care which
>> page I was.
> Okay, that's a good point - when we've designed the today's printing
> dialog, we tried hard to get rid of many of the old options to make it
> both useful and clean (although current page was never part of that).
>
> I've noticed that you already provided a patch for that - thanks! And
> here I'd like to ask you to help me to get some understanding ...
> reason: I lack C++ coding skills.
>
> So ...
>        * Where is "Current page" located? Between "Pages" and
>          "Selection", I assume, or?
In my patch, I've just implement as OOO did. So for now, it's still no 
"Current page" there :D But I will try to put in between "Pages" and 
"Selection"

>        * Please take care that the dialog does not grow in height (too
>          much), since it won't be usable on netbooks.
OK
>        * Does this patch also provide "Current Page" for Draw/Impress?
>          This would be essential for consistency. If yes, then the
>          terminology for Impress only) is different: "Current Slide".
>          Only for Calc and Math it is not needed or makes less sense.
>
> Could you please provide some hints to me? Thanks!
>
I'm still modifying Writer only. :) After Writer, I will go to Draw/Impress.
> Mmh, looking at a recent LibO version, I notice that somebody moved ...
> the "reverse order" option to a weird position (makes no sense, breaks
> spacing etc.) But that's another story.
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
Cheers,
Ta Tung