[sldev] Request for VWR-15310 in Snowglobe: Advanced->XUI->Save to XML doesn't set proper XML tags

[Mike Monkowski]

We expect (at least we hope) when VWR-10924 is implemented that a lot of 
people will be building XUI HUDs.  The "Save to XML" function is quite 
helpful for building floaters.

I can put a tag <spinner/> in my XML with no attributes so that it gets 
constructed with all of the default attributes.  If I then do a "Save to 
XML" I get an XML file with a spinner tag and all of the default 
attributes for spinner.  I don't have to look up their names in the 
documentation and type them in.

VWR-10924 contains a new "Preview XUI" function which will then allow me 
to adjust the attribute values, reload the XML, and see the result.

I can imagine extending the "Save to XML" function to have an option to 
save only the non-default attributes to then give me compact XML.

Mike
Mm Alder

pmonkow at ncsu.edu wrote:
> This patch is part of VWR-10924. We factored out the changes into two
> files. This first patch fixes the save functionality, which is a
> prerequisite for the second patch, which is the new functionality in
> VWR-10924.
> 
> Thanks,
> Phillip Monkowski
> Admiral Admiral
> 
> 
>>Hi Admiral,
>>
>>This is a rather big patch, one that touches a lot of files. I understand
>>that it always seems good to fix a feature that is broken but there is
>>another (sometimes better for the long term health of the code base)
>>alternative which is to weed out an application of unused features.
>>
>>Would you mind articulating a rationale as to why we should revive this
>>feature? Do you have a project that would use it? What is it?
>>
>>To the list: are there anyone who is missing that functionality and would
>>like to see it fixed? (FWIW, there's 0 votes on the JIRA right now) Use
>>cases?
>>
>>Cheers,
>>- Merov
>>
>>On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:01 PM, <pmonkow at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Please consider VWR-15310 for inclusion in Snowglobe.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Phillip Monkowski
>>>Admiral Admiral