Re: [Fxruby-users] Re: a color object

[Martin H. <ma...@zs...>]

On Wednesday 04 February 2004 04:04, Lyle Johnson wrote:

> .... One concern, however, is how to handle return values
> for methods that currently return colors as Integers. That is, I think
> to preserve back-compatibility those methods would need to continue to
> return color values as integers. Any thoughts?
>

Two that I can think of - one is to provide an alternative method=20
(xxx_as_color) that returns a colour object rather than an integer, or th=
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other is to add to_color to the Integer class which returns an instance o=
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itself as a colour object?

I don't find either very attractive but they would offer both integer and=
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colour retrieval.

Another is maybe to allow a class/global setter -=20
Fox.returnColorsAsObject=3D(boolean) and maybe use that to determine what=
 to=20
return from each FXRuby function?=20

Although probably more work from a development point of view, I actually=20
prefer this approach because it does not clutter the rest of the API, nor=
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interfere with the Integer class...

Cheers,
Martin