[Perl-widget-developer] Freezing and Thawing widgets was: Teambuilding...

[Gunther B. <gu...@ex...>]

How do you propose supporting this API-wise?

BTW Minor Peeve: For those changing topics --

Please change the subjects in a shorter, more readable fashion when 
changing topics. Not all mailers support over 60 or so chars of subject so 
reading this particular thread was kind of a pain for me after coming back 
to it.

Of course, this post was one of the better ones as some didn't bother 
changing subjects at all. :)

At 11:06 AM 6/6/2001 -0400, Jay Lawrence wrote:
>The purpose? Ah, good question. More variety of configuration options. I
>expect that I'll want to configure my widgets separate from my code. (At
>least the types of widgets I'm thinking about)
>
>So this gives me the option to configure them elsewhere, save them (freeze),
>and have my code thaw all the widgets that it cares about. FURTHERMORE, if I
>want to give others the chance to configure some or all widgets - I can
>allow them to modify the saved definition and resave it as I deem
>appropriate.
>
>The widget has to know how to freeze and thaw itsself because of course that
>is implementation dependant to some degree. IE/ Data::Dumper would dump out
>the hash that holds all of the widget properties - which in itsself is an
>implementation detail.
>
>Jay
>
> > At 10:05 AM 6/6/2001 -0400, Jay Lawrence wrote:
> > >One other thing I really wanna see is thaw/freeze support. Scary? Not
> > >really. Obviously if you don't wanna thaw and freeze widgets ever this
>will
> > >be no skin off your nose - it is optional to use.
> > >
> > >I belive that one thing needs to happen in the thaw phase - that is a
>"use"
> > >for the widget's class. There is no guarantee that you've "use"d that
>widget
> > >class already.
> > >
> >
> > Interesting idea.
> > What is the purpose of freezing and thawing widgets?
> >
> > Stephen
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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