Re: PATCH: Bug 186

Adam Megacz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.xwt.general
Organization XWT
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Charles Goodwin <[email protected]> writes:
> My argument was that both his suggestions and your suggestions also messed
> with box karma,

Quite true!

Also, for the record, I'm a bit uneasy about using a box as a mere
container for passing around collections of boxes.  I think it makes
more sense to use an Object or Array for that.  Generally, you should
only add children to a box if you expect them to (eventually) appear
on th screen in that order, as children of that box...

> just moved the messing about elsewhere.

I'm not claiming that david's approach is technically superior (it's
not) -- just that it is better at setting the programmer's
expectations of how the widget will behave.

This is actually all really more about psychology than engineering ;)

  - a


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