Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] CVS Commit

[Glenn L. <pe...@ne...>]

On approximately 12/2/2003 1:00 PM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Laurent ROCHER:

> 5.
>     If -style need to be deprecated, i don't think it's a good idea to 
> a add -forcestyle.
>     We keep -style without deprecated warning message.
>     Or, we remove it and force people to use registered class for fix 
> a default style.
>  
>     For me, -style don't need to be deprecated.
>     It's a programmer choice (and supposed know what he's doing ;o).
>     -popstyle/-pushstyle for set/reset a specific control style.
>     -style are usefull for set a fixed style. 

There is also -addstyle and -remstyle, so really -style isn't that 
necessary.

>  
> Laurent.
> 
>     ----- Original Message -----
> 
>     Hello.
>      
>     I'm going to look into this list of bugs to see what I can fix, but
>     I'm quite sure none of them are to do with my patches :) and maybe
>     you have some answers:
>      
>     1. Default DialogBox background is white on Windows 2000, rather
>     than the correct colour for a buttonface/3dface. I assume this is
>     known because it's blatantly obvious.
>      
>     2. NEM event onResize seems to be called in the constructor for
>     Windows and possibly all other widgets. This is very frustrating
>     because if you use onResize to handle your scaling, then often it
>     tries to scale widgets that have not yet been defined, causing an
>     error.
>      
>     3. Timers no longer seem to work as documented. In fact they don't
>     work at all (for me). This could be something that only manifests
>     itself when the NEM is used, but I haven't tested that.
>      
>     4. NEM events seem to be triggered tons of times. For example when I
>     click a mouse button I get about 60 onMouseDown calls.
>      
>     5. There are times when -style is appropriate. I admit that -style
>     SHOULD be deprecated, but there should be a new argument such as
>     -forcestyle for when you know what you're doing. I can see that
>     default styles could be changed in future, and hardcoding -popstyle
>     for each default style seems rather crude to me.
>      
>     Steve
>      

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  The division that includes Windows posted an operating profit of $2.26 
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So that's profit of over 400% of investment... with a bit more 
investment in Windows technology, particularly in the area of 
reliability, the profit percentage might go down, but so might the bugs 
and security problems?  Seems like it would be a reasonable tradeoff. 
WalMart earnings are 3.4% of investment.