Comment 7 for bug 490814

On Wednesday 02 December 2009 21:09:02 Al wrote:
> 2009/12/2 OldAl <email address hidden>:
> To be honest, I'd also have no problem with the idea of fixing this
> one, only I'm not sure of the best place to put the settings or read
> them.

Al,

Go for it! What I would really appreciate, Dr Al, if you would tell OldAl how
you did it. OldAl is always keen to learn. In case it helps, I took a branch
of bzr-explorer and started to look at revision 1. I think that it would
become clearer how the GUI was constructed if one were to step from revision 1
onwards. Ian is a very experienced, clever, competent and tidy programmer. I
was surprised to see how well he had planned the whole bzr-explorer right from
the word go.

Particularly nice connection of signals to bits of Python code, all done in
one loop in revision 1. Smart staff.

It was interesting to see the (probably widely known, but not known to me)
technique of making tuples of items of data by listing items, followed by a
comma, viz my_data = x1, x2, x3,

I would have thought that the last comma was superfluous and not meant to be
there. There were some other bits of programming there that I could not
fathom. :(

What a shame that we only have one life at a time (:

OldAl.

PS: Yes, I do hold a doctorate from Uni of NSW, awarded to me at a mature age
of 42 in 1967. My wife and I had already three kids. She deserves at least
half of that and other degrees. I urge both our sons to sign their names with
their Dr titles. They do not want to do, but have not given me a satisfactory
explanation. Why not - they worked for it! I am sure you did too, Al.

--
Algis Kabaila, MEngSc, PhD(Eng)
http://akabaila.pcug.org.au/StructuralAnalysis.pdf