Re: [Plib-users] legend update

[Stephen J B. <sj...@li...>]

>> Someone already (correctly) pointed out that sliText is a local variable
>> (which is certainly a problem) - but it's also not large enough.
>
>Correct Steve - thanks for pointing that out.
>
> However, there is yet another problem with your design. If you have more
> than one slider connected to that callback, there will be only one string
> buffer, but there has to be one for each slider. You surely don't want all
> sliders to have the same legend.

Yep - if there is more than one of these beasts, that's true.

> A possible, but not the best, solution would be to abuse the slider's
> string buffer to store the legend string.

Yuk.

> You could also derive your own
> class from puSlider and add a char[] array member.

That would work...or you could use the 'userdata' field to hold the
array - that's *probably* what I would do.

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