Re: [GUI] More points for the technical discussion

On Monday, 2003-02-17, 20:25, CET, Nick Name wrote:

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 20:58:05 +0000 Glynn Clements wrote:

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Generally, you only set widget properties programmatically if you have to (i.e. because the values are determined dynamically).

Yes,yes :) I was not proposing any true API, just arguing that one can abstract over a yesNoCancel dialog window, parametrizing it with the verb to use on macos and kde3 to avoid a "yes/no" question.

I think the distinction between static values (which don't have to be computed at run-time) and dynamic values (which have to be computed at run-time) is not very natural. It is just like a distinction between squares and rectangles which are not squares. I would prefer if we would handle static values the same way we handle dynamic values. That would mean that certain static values would appear in the source code.

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This does not solve the verb conjugation problem,indeed (how does apple handle it in internationalization?)

Your approch for the Yes-No-Cancel dialogs was to specify a verb describing the action (e.g., "save") and to let the system produce the button captions. Why shouldn't we just define a function which has the captions of the Yes and the No button directly as arguments? An example application of it could be dialogYesNoCancel "Save" "Don't save" <other arguments> which would name the buttons "Save", "Don't save" and "Cancel" on the Mac and "Yes", "No" and "Cancel" on a PC running Windows or KDE (:-)).

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Wolfgang