+++ Michael Lake [03-11-06 15:08 +1100]:
John Pybus wrote:
You'll also note the need to convert reference of the form survey.subsurvey.station to station@subsurvey.survey . This is also rather irksome (I think it betrays therion's tcl roots?).
OT but I think that at some point it will have to use another GUI. Either GTK-anything or wxWindows or
Yes. Everyone agrees xtherion is fairly horrid and is merely a 'proof of concept' UI. I think stacho picked tcl because he already knew it. Most of the people I know who are currently using illustrator rather than therion are doing it because the interface was too slow/horrible in comparison. The problem is of course that writing good UIs is both hard and tedious - any volunteers :-) ..... now back to the topic at hand.
I'd really like a survexinclude which would import survex data from the original files. With very little reorganisation my existing data could then be used with therion without change. That might require linking the survex parser into therion to implement.
The above would be by far the best option. Copying and pasting in your survex data creates then two copies of survex data that can get out-of-sync when you update the survex data.
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