Re: [jazzplusplus-devel] how to port mididelay dialog to new system?

[Patrick E. <pa...@pa...>]

On Wednesday 24 March 2004 14:27, Dave Fancella wrote:
> To be honest, I'm not particular on *how* the data is pulled from
> the dialog. I'm interested in this Attach method.  Also, bear in
> mind I just came back from php-land yesterday, so it'll take a
> little bit for me to get strongly-typed again.  :(  In any case, I
> was thinking that the absolute best way to take the most advantage
> out of XRC would be to have one single dialog maker using several
> different XRC dialog resources rather than just making a bunch of
> dialogs that all load their resources from a file.  It's entirely
> possible that the XRC system will take care of the whole problem of
> pulling data from the dialog for us.  I seem to recall that in XRC
> you define both the resource name and the type, placement, look,
> etc.  Maybe it just takes care of it for us?  ;)

Well, I don't know precisely what you're refering to, but I do know 
that XRC only specifies the GUI widgets and their layout.  It doesn't 
specify any means for interaction with data.  You're expected to do 
basically wxWindow:::FindWindowByName(dialog, "someWidget") and get 
the data out yourself.  It's not -hard- to get the data out, but it's 
still much easier with a wrapper class doing the dirty work for you.

> Not necessarily, but the associative array deal is far from
> perfect.  It is pretty readable, though, and that's a winning trait
> for it's use in weak-typed languages.

Ya, they're great in dynamically typed languages. :)

> > // "Attach" technique.  This is actual code that would work in
> > the // current system.
> > jppResourceDialog dialog = jppResourceDialog(parent, "myDialog");
> > dialog.Attach("myTextCtrl", &myString);
> > dialog.Attach("myCheckBox", &myBool);
> > dialog.ShowModal();
>
> Is this "Attach" method part of wxWindows already?  It looks
> familiar....

Hmm, I hope not... otherwise I just re-invented the wheel.

        Patrick