Re: One Last Description

Charles Goodwin <[email protected]> writes:
> (1) Things like scrollbar, scrollpane, list, anything that's not overly
> simple can be broken into two 'libs'.  1 is the generic lib (the slave /
> thumb relationship) and 1 is the layout lib (stuff to simplify the creation
> of 98% of themes) that you don't want to combine with the generic lib
> because you don't want to inhibit the creation of those marvelous unique
> themes that are bound to pop up.

Agreed.  The names in lib don't have to exactly correspond to the
names in widget (unlike theme).

Just write xwt.lib.scrollbar_layout and xwt.lib.scrollbar_functions.


> Either that or you flat out refuse to acknowledge the existence of the
> cyclic preapply problem which Rod, Andrew and I dealt with first hand
> because we refused to use the 'hackish' way around of importing
> xwt.standard.* (as opposed to xwt.standard).

I would be happy to add code to the engine which short-circuits these
circular preapplies.

  - a


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