Re: [Fxruby-users] Scintilla FXDataTarget Bug?

[jeroen <je...@fo...>]

On Wednesday 16 June 2004 09:04 pm, Joseph wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Jeroen, thanks for enlightening me (in more detail) to layout management
> and FXSplitter. It came in handy.
>
> A new problem:
> I was experimenting with FXDataTarget, FXText, and FXScintilla.  The
> FXScintilla widget does not appear to be working with FXDataTarget objects.
> In Detail (code follows below)
> I have a FXText widget, and a FXScintilla widget. Each is connected to
> its own FXDataTarget instance. I initialize the two FXDataTarget
> instances to a static value, and then implement a button handler that
> prints out the value of both FXDataTarget instances.
> 1. The static text assigned to the DataTarget associated with the FXText
> instance is displayed in the FXText widget, however, FXScintilla does
> not display the text assigned to the DataTarget associated with the
> FXScintilla widget.
> 2. If I type something into both the FXText widget, as well as the
> FXScintilla widget, then the DataTarget associated with the FXText now
> contains the text that was entered interactively, whereas the DataTarget
> prints the text that was originally assigned to the DataTarget
> programmatically. I.e. if I hit the "Print" button, then the new value
> is printed for the FXText DataTarget, but the Scintilla DataTarget does
> not print the modified contents that was typed into the Scintilla widget.


Of course, its up to FXScintilla to issue the messages [and handle the
ID_GETSTRINGVALUE messages] so that the datatarget system works.

However, for such large chunks of text as you can have in an editor it
is a bit of an expensive mechanism.

So I'd suggest to think twice about using it even if the FXScintilla
text component does implement it fully [unless of course you don't
expect a lot of text; with small bits of text it should not be a
problem].


Regards,

		Jeroen

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