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- Subject: Re: ODF Observations
- Sent: 7/10/96 9:14 AM
- Received: 7/10/96 9:42 AM
- From: Henri Lamiraux, lamiraux@apple.com
- Reply-To: ODF Interest, ODF-Interest@CILabs.ORG
- To: OpenDoc Development Framework Discussion List, ODF-Interest@CILabs.
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- >o My part has a lot of FW_CEditView's. It seemed rather difficult to get the
- >FW_CEditView's to reflect my part's contents and vice versa. For example,
- >when
- >I have multiple frames, I want the changes made to a FW_CEditView in one
- >frame
- >to be immediately reflected in the other frames. The default implementation,
- >i.e. the implementation based on the Hello part, just forced a redraw which
- >wouldn't do anything to propagate the newly typed text to the corresponding
- >FW_CEditView's. My solution was to use the notification subsystem to
- >notify the
- >frames to update the FW_CEditView's. Is there a more general way to
- >synchronize
- >frames and the content?
- >
- >o More notification classes would be useful, i.e.
- >FW_CBecameTargetNotification,
- >FW_CResignedTargetNotification, FW_CEditViewChangedNotification, etc.
- >
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- We know about this problem and it is on our list of future features. View
- synchronisation accross frames is a complex problem and we are looking at
- different solutions.
-
- >o I hate short file names. Alas, the cost of cross-platform code.
- >
- >o When is ODF 2 scheduled for release?
-
- ODF 2 will be on the web early september
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- >
- >o It seems like it would be useful to be able to copy and assign content
- >objects. For example, if you want to be able to undo a drop of a part of the
- >same type, a command class could just retain a copy of the content as the
- >saved
- >data. FW_Content lacks an explicit copy constructor and assignment operator.
- >The compiler generated versions look safe to use for the current class but
- >that
- >is no guarantee that they will remain safe. Does it make sense to add an
- >explicit copy constructor and assignment operator? Or should I use a
- >stream/archiving to duplicate the content's data?
- >
-
- We will look into that.
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- Henri Lamiraux lamiraux@apple.com
- Apple Computer, Inc. OpenDoc(tm) Development Framework
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