Today's Slip Cover Feature: Adding Columns

I started out wanting to add "refresh". However, I just wiped my netbook and set up Lucid UNE Beta 2 on it, so only had one database in my local desktopcouch and it didn't have any records. I didn't know how I'd test the feature. I haven't set up my Ubuntu One yet on this computer, because I've been waiting for gwibber to get fixed (it is!) so that I could test out the Social From the Start Experience.

This is a long winded way of saying that I decided to implement another feature first to make it easier for me to test refresh out, editing an existing database. The first step of this was to be able to add columns. So I added an "add column" button.

I used quickly.prompts to get the string from the user. To actually add the column required a bit of intimate knowledge of the internals of DictionaryGrid. It occurred to me that folks might want to be able to add a key/column to a Grid themselves, so I logged a bug to remind me to make this easier.

Since Fagan asked to see the code when I posts :) -

    def add_column(self, widget, data=None):
    response, val = prompts.string("New Column","Please select a name for the new column")
    if response == gtk.RESPONSE_OK:
        self.grid.keys.append(val)
        self.grid._refresh_treeview()