Re: Errata to win32lib doc?
- Posted by Dan B Moyer <DANMOYER at PRODIGY.NET> Nov 14, 2000
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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