Re: Composite Widget Problem

Ala Qumsieh <[email protected]> writes:

> --- Slaven Rezic <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Add
> > 
> >     $w->ConfigSpecs(-background => ["SELF"]);
> > 
> > to the Populate method.
> 
> Heh. I had tried:
> 
>   $w->ConfigSpecs(-bg => ["SELF"]);
> 
> but that didn't work because -bg is an alias.

Yes, that was also my first try :-)

> I also
> tried:
> 
>   $w->ConfigSpecs(DEFAULT => ["SELF"]);
> 
> and that didn't work either because DEFAULT gets
> triggered only if the option was not found in the
> Config Specs before. Since the SUPER::Populate calls
> ConfigSpecs somewhere in the widget hierarchy, the
> option was already defined.
> 
> The problem with your approach is that I need it to
> override *ALL* options.

It's just -background and -foreground which have the special handling.

> Hard-coding all possible
> options is ugly. Call me a control-freak, but I don't
> want the user to be able to change anything. Actually,
> the real reason is that this is for ZooZ (the GUI
> builder), and once the user is done building the
> project, he/she shouldn't need to modify the options
> (although ZooZ does offer a way to do it).
> 

Regards,
        Slaven

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