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- Item 4130802 5-Jan-90 19:23
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- From: V0230 Trace, Laurence Kirsh,VAR
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- To: D1282 -> POWERUP.DEV Power Up,PRT
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- cc: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: Shared views in TDialogView
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- James,
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- In reference to my suggestion to replace TDialogView's fTEView with a general
- list of views, you ask: "Why must all TEditText items share a single
- TDialogTEView"?
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- Well the short answer is that they don't absolutely have to. But I think that
- sharing editing views between dialog controls is a useful feature for the
- following reasons:
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- • Dialogs often have multiple controls of the same type.
- • It is rare that a user operates on more than one control at a time. This is
- especially true of edit text fields, and it is easy to see why the fTEView
- field was added to TDialogView.
- • We can't predict how large some yet-to-be-created edit object may be.
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- By providing a storage area in TDialogView it is easy for controls to share an
- edit view, but not required. I see there's a request for a sketch of how this
- idea would be implemented, so I suppose I will think it through and see if the
- additional code is worth it.
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- --John MacVeigh
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