OpenEuphoria

Re: llama AND win32lib ??

• Posted by David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> Jul 18, 1999
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Bernie Ryan wrote:

> if a user calls the function getText_() in llama then
> how will they know if they were return a Title or a
> Control's text. If a control has no title getlength returns
> length of text in the control if thats zero then we don't
> know if we received a return from a control or a blank
> title bar.

You've actually answered your own question - you know by the context of the
call.

I agree the naming convention is initially ambigious. But unlike what VB
presents, Win32 controls generally either have titles or text - off the top
of my head I can't think of any control that has both.

 At the point where I selected the name, I had decided that it was important
to follow the Win32/VB convention.  My personal preference is to make the
two distinct, as my TextGUI does - it has seperate Title and Data fields -
much as you've suggested.

> You should have away to determine if an object is
> a window or a control then you could have two methods
> gettitletext and getcontroltext.

I think Win32Lib supplied a function for that; Llama as a function named
something like 'derivedFrom' that does that.

In any event, I'll take it under consideration. It *might* be nice if Llama
created automatic captions for controls as well.

Thanks!

-- David Cuny