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- Subject: Re: Q: New Controls
- Sent: 6/17/96 10:22 AM
- Received: 6/17/96 10:29 AM
- From: Laurent Delamare, laurentd@apple.com
- Reply-To: ODF Interest, ODF-Interest@CILabs.ORG
- To: OpenDoc Development Framework Discussion List, ODF-Interest@CILabs.
-
- >
- >>What is the best way to start making custom subviews,
- >>i.e. twist down or multiple column list boxes?
- >>
- >
- >I don't believe this question was answered and I'm curious as well.
-
- The best way to do new view classes that are significantly different from
- the existing ODF 1 views is to start from scratch under FW_CView. In ODF
- 1 our goal was to support the native Mac Toolbox controls + text-edit +
- list-box, so these views are really tied to the underlying Mac structures
- (*). For instance one couldn't implement an icon button by subclassing
- FW_CButton, or implement a multi-column table by subclassing FW_CListBox.
-
- We understand the need for more powerful views, especially tables and
- text-edits, they are high on the priority list for future versions on
- ODF. Those classes will be much more customizable.
-
- In the mean time we may be able to help you with a port of the MacApp
- TGridView that was done here for an internal testing tool, I need to
- check the availability for ODF 1 users. ( However this grid view uses the
- ODF scroller and requires its own frame.)
-
- (*) This doesn't mean that the API will change for the Windows version of
- ODF. We will keep the same API as much as we can when we support the
- native Windows controls.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
- Laurent Delamare laurentd@apple.com
- ODF Team http://www.devtools.apple.com/odf/
- Apple Computer, Inc. http://www.opendoc.apple.com/
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