RE: Problems with IDE
- Posted by Judith <camping at txcyber.com> Aug 21, 2001
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Judith wrote: > > daryl_vdb at HOTMAIL.COM wrote: > > Judith, > > SNIP > > For reasons that aren't clear to me, the IDE is declaring all controls > > as > > global constants, when I think they should be declared as local > > constants. > > I think that there should be an option (a control property) that > > determines whether a control will be global. The default should be > > local. > > There is an existing request that the output EXW be split into seperate > .ew files per window and to allow the user to specify local or global. > While I am not ready to create seperate .ew files, I am in the next > release, allowing the user to specify local or global per control in > Properties. The default will be global so as not to break existing prj > files. > > Upon more thought, I decided to change the local/global constant create routine i the next IDE release to work this way: There will be an IDE.cfg entry that indicates that controls when added to a project default to global or local. Global is the default unless user changes to local. The routines I added in Properties will override the local/global on a control by control basis. This allows those folks wanting mostly local controls to do less keying in Properties. If anyone has more input on this issue, now is the time to speak up. thanks, Judith > > regards, > > Daryl van den Brink > > > > > > > > >