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Re: Win32Lib RichEdit suggestion

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Mar 24, 2001
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On 24 Mar 2001, at 13:09, Derek Parnell wrote:

> 
> 
> Aku wrote:
> 
> > Why I can't use getText for RichEdit, I must use getRichText.
> >
> > It's better to use getText for RichEdit, but keep getRichText.
> 
> getText(id) does work for RichText already. It returns the *selected* text
> from a RichEdit control. The getRichText(id,range) is used when you need to
> get
> text other than what the user has selected.
> 
> Because they take different parameters, it would break existing code to make
> getText work the same as getRichText.

Even if you had it accept all the passed parms as a sequence or object, and 
counted the number of parms to determine what the programmer intended?

function x(sequence data)
If (length(data) = 4) then -- they want this
elsif (length(data) = 3) then -- they want to do this
else abort(1,"wrong number of parms in function x!")
end if

Kat,
puzzled about this.