GUI API (was Re: [PD-dev] Re:[PD] More Flext compilation problems)

Thomas Grill gr at grrrr.org
Mon Jul 18 15:43:52 CEST 2005


Am 18.07.2005 um 10:59 schrieb Thomas Grill:

>>
>> On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Guenter Geiger wrote:
>>> canvas_realizedollor sounds too much like a hack to be a serious 
>>> candidate
>>> for a stable API .. back to escaping.
>>
>> Forget about this. Probably doesn't have to do with escaping, nor 
>> that the
>> function is a hack. I think this one is not exported because it used 
>> to be
>> handled internally without the externals (or internals) need to worry
>> about. Now this seems to have changed.
>
> The whole mechanism of dealing with $-variables in object creation 
> arguments (like in iem-guis and flext) is awkward.
> In my case (and i think also with iem-guis) the $s are converted to #s 
> on saving.
> On object creation, the #s are converted back to $s in the object 
> constructor and evaluated by canvas_realizedollar.
> It would be advantageous to have some less hacky procedure here.

Oh, you are right.... escaping the $ (instead of converting it) would 
be a cleaner solution.
So, back to escaping.

Thomas





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