16 Feb
2003
16 Feb
'03
10:25 p.m.
On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 09:58 PM, Glynn Clements wrote:
User-visible text doesn't belong in the source code. On Windows, the label text normally lives in the resource (.rc) file; with Xt-based toolkits (Athena, Motif), it belongs in the app-defaults file.
Generally, you only set widget properties programmatically if you have to (i.e. because the values are determined dynamically).
Agreed. However, the general consensus (correct me if I'm wrong) seems to be that we shouldn't use platform-specific resource files. When we have an API for programmatical creation of the UI, we can implement a library for platform-independent resource files on top of that. Cheers, Wolfgang