Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Potential API issue with Table.attach() & AttachOptions?

[Stefan P. <pr...@tz...>]

Hi Jacek,

Am Donnerstag, den 19.03.2009, 15:42 -0400 schrieb Jacek Furmankiewicz:
> I was looking at the Table.attach() method. I need to pass in a
> combination of AttachOptions (e.g. FILL | EXPAND), just like you can
> in Glade.

Interesting. I admit I wasn't aware of the fact that you could combine
the options.

>From what I can say the fastest way would be to make the AttachOptions
constructor public. Currently it is defined as

    private AttachOptions(int ordinal, String nickname) {
        super(ordinal, nickname);
    }

I guess that the "ordinal" parameter should be the integer you are
talking about. So you would use the class like this
  new AttachOptions(GtkAttachOptions.FILL|GtkAttachOptions.SHRINK,
"FILL|SHRINK")

Please, just make the constructor public, try it and give us feedback if
this workaround would solve your problem.

This has two drawbacks:

1. I am not sure how to deal with the "nickname" parameter in such a
   case. "FILL|SHRINK" was just a guess of mine.

2. It is extremly unelegant. Better perhaps would be to let
   AttachOptions have int constants and calculate a nickname within
   the constructor:

    public final static int SHRINK = GtkAttachOptions.SHRINK;

    public AttachOptions(int ordinal) {
        super(ordinal, AttachOptions.getNicknameFor(ordinal));
    }
    private final static String getNicknameFor(int ordinal) {
      .. some StringBuffer magic ...
    }

RFC

Stefan