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[Oorexx-users] ooDialog - EditControl class??

[Oliver S. <oli...@si...>]

Just thinking about the .Edit~inherit statement in NumberOnlyEditEx.cls.
The full statement is:
 
      .Edit~inherit(.NumberOnlyEditEx, .EditControl)
 
I can't find the class .EditControl in the ooDialog Reference, and was just
wondering if it's just not yet documented, or whether it's not mentioned
intentionally (e.g. it's a private class that developers are not expected to
see/use).
 
Thx,
Oliver

Re: [Oorexx-users] ooDialog - EditControl class??

[Mark M. <mie...@gm...>]

On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Oliver Sims <
oli...@si...> wrote:

> Just thinking about the .Edit~inherit statement in NumberOnlyEditEx.cls.
> The full statement is:
>
>      .Edit~inherit(.NumberOnlyEditEx, .EditControl)
>
> I can't find the class .EditControl in the ooDialog Reference, and was just
> wondering if it's just not yet documented, or whether it's not mentioned
> intentionally (e.g. it's a private class that developers are not expected
> to
> see/use).




Part of what was done in ooDialog 4.2.0 was what I'm calling the unification
of class and method names.  Previously ooDialog's class and method names
were sort of a hodgepodge of names with no consistency.


The dialog control classes used names that made no sense to me, making it
hard to remember exactly which name to use.  For instance you had the
ComboBox class, the RadioButton class, the EditControl class, the
ListControl class.  Why is the class ComboBox and not ComboBoxControl?  If
there is a ButtonControl class, why is the check box class not called the
CheckBoxControl?

Was the ListControl class a list box or a list view?  If you just wrote a
line of code using the EditControl class and want to do something with
a radio button, is the class name ??  RadioButtonControl or ...

There was also inconsistency with the method names that dealt with the
dialog controls.  This feature request has some further discussion:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2860344&group_id=119701&atid=684733

Microsoft has a single name for each dialog control.  In 4.2.0 all class
names and method names pertaining to dialog controls use Microsoft's name
for the control.  The radio button class is .RadionButton, not
.RadioButtonControl, the list view class is .ListView, not .ListViewControl,
or .ListControl, edit is .Edit, not .EditControl.

So, all the method names that used editContol and class name of EditControl
are deprecated, but still work.  All mention of the EditControl class in the
documentation is removed and the Edit class is used instead.

All the deprecated methods still work, but they are explicitly not
documented.  If you are writing new code you shouldn't use the deprecated
methods.  If you are editing old code and are editing a line using one of
the deprecated methods, then while editing the line anyway, you should
replace the deprecated method name with the new name.  If you aren't doing
either, then you don't need any documentation.

In the appendix of the ooDialog doc is a list of all the deprecated methods
and their replacement methods.

In the inherit() method, you will see that the second argument controls
where the class is inserted in the superclasses list.  I didn't want it
inserted at the end of the list, so I used .EditControl.  If you look in the
ooDialog.cls file for the .Edit class you will see why that works.  I could
have used .DialogControl as well, and maybe should have.

--
Mark Miesfeld





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