Re: Last call on the selectable naming issue

We talked about this on #xwt once and came to the conclusion that this could 
add a lot of unnecessary weight to widgets such as check that will never use 
the electable/muxselectable/etc attribute.  (A fully-featured 
electable/muxselectable/etc will require a lot of code.  Having selectable 
separate makes selectable a matter of two or three traps.)

Rod

On Tuesday 28 October 2003 4:28 pm, Adam Megacz wrote:
> Hey, what if we merge selectable and {electable|muxselectable|etc} and
> provide an attribute 'maxselectable' that defaults to 1?
>
> Then a 'selectable' is just a selectable in a group by itself, and an
> 'electable' is just a selectable that's grouped with other
> selectables?
>
> This generalizes nicely to the case where you have a list of items of
> which a fixed number (say, only three) can be selected.
>
>   - a
>
> Charles Goodwin <[email protected]> writes:
> > Ok, the choice is simple; one of the following 4.
> >
> > ["can-be-selected-widget" and "part-of-selection-group"]
> >
> > In no particular order:
> > 1.  selectable and electable
> > 2.  selectable and muxselectable
> > 3.  selectable and selectionable
> > 4.  markable and selectable
> >
> > Markable is a late entrant in that I've only recently really considered
> > it.  Pros: short and sensible.  Cons: selected=bool not marked=bool.
> >
> > Please put in your prefered order.  I'll assign points according to
> > position (1=5pts, 2=3pts, 3=2pts, 4=1pt) and add up the totals.
> >
> > Winner takes all.  Also, please add a yes/no on vote weighting where
> > 'yes' means mine (as main widget dev) and Adam's (as XWT deity) votes
> > count twice.
> >
> > My order: 4, 1, 3, 2
> > On weighting: yes
> >
> > Please tell others to vote, although unrecognised names don't get to
> > vote (ie if you haven't contributed / been around) so you can't sabotage
> > it.
> >
> > - Charlie
> >
> >
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