[ruby-fltk-devel] Top-level and child windows

[Kevin S. <kev...@ya...>]

I'm not happy that FLTK uses the constructor signature to
decide between child and top-level windows. I think we
should do something different, to allow you to create a
top-level window at a certain position, and to avoid
specifying the position of a child window.

For now, as a result of my work on new and initialize, it
is impossible to create a child window. If we can't agree
on a solution, I can restore the ability to choose
top-level or child based on whether or not you pass x and
y.

I've thought of many possibilities, but I don't really like
any of them. I think tmy favorite so far is:

Assume that any Window will be top-level. If someone wants
to create a child window, require them to insert the RBFL
constant Fltk::CHILDWINDOW as the first parameter to new.
So new would now take zero to six parameters. 

How does this sound?

Kevin

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