[Clam-devel] Copy & Paste processings on canvas patch

[Natanael Olaiz]

The same with little improvements in the code (deleted some unuseful loops).


El 06/08/2008 01:43 AM, Natanael Olaiz escribió:
> El 06/05/2008 07:37 AM, David García Garzón escribió:
>> Well i think it is very important to keep the network, canvas 
>> agnostic, as well as keeping the NetworkCanvas clam agnostic. But as 
>> we are introducing the positions and the selections as part of the 
>> network itself i propose to add such an information to the network 
>> itself, not as part of the processings but as network optional 
>> attributes. That is duplicating the information but just during 
>> loading and storing. The key to eliminate a duplication hell is 
>> declaring such information in the Network is not reliable, is the 
>> canvas who set it before loading and recovers it after saving but 
>> clears it afterwards. So there is no temptation on using it in a 
>> different place than load/store.
>>
>> So how to implement that? For selections adding the network a 
>> std::set attribute of selected processing names. It has just effect 
>> on storing and only if it is not empty. If it is not empty the 
>> network should check if the name is in the set before storin it. On 
>> storing a selection and just on storing a selection call 
>> Network::UpdateSelections(list or other container), do the store and 
>> then clear them Network::ClearSelections.
>> The Network::StoreOn will only store the processing whose name is in 
>> the set, or all of them if the set is empty. I think that this one 
>> would be the easier one and the first to be addressed.
>>
>> About the positions and sizes, i would use the same strategy. On 
>> load/store push or extract such information into the network being 
>> reliable just on load and store time, clearing it afterwards to be 
>> sure we don't rely on it after load/store. Such information should be 
>> transfered if present to the ProcessingDefinitionAdapter to xml them. 
>> Not that clear about the structure to store size and position but 
>> let's address first selections and then, let's see what about sizes 
>> and positions.
>>
>>   
>
> This is a first attempt to store & restore positions and sizes too. I 
> make it in two steps, but I think it's not necessary...
>
> What do you think?
>
> BTW, I don't like that boxPos and boxSize goes first... can you 
> imagine names which begins with a latter letter than "t" (of type)? :-)
>
>
> Regards,
> Natanael.
>

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