1. Re: Errata to win32lib doc?

Derek,

If you *don't* do it David's way (with new *classes* of window styles), and
do set various specific TYPES of window styles, will you do it in such a way
that users can still "or_all" various "fundamental" styles together to "roll
their own" styles??

Dan Moyer

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Cuny" <dcuny at LANSET.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: Errata to win32lib doc?


> Derek Parnell wrote:
>
> > w32Common_Style
> > w32Toolbox_Style
>
> I think that creating different classes of windows would be the more
correct
> way to go about doing it. It's a lot more platform independant, and I
think
> more intuitive. For example:
>
>     Window (default)
>     ScrolledWin (window with scrollbars)
>     DialogWin (modal)
>     MDIWin (MDI window)
>     MessageWin (popup messagebox)
>     ChildWin (MDI child)
>     ChildScrolledWin (MDI child w/scrollbars)
>     ToolboxWin (floating window)
>     PaletteWin (same as ToolboxWin)
>
> I had intended for some time to take that route, but not gotten around to
> it. I've never really been a fan of that last field in create(); it
exposes
> too much of the API to the casual user. It's also potentially more
fragile.
>
> -- David Cuny

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