Re: [wxhaskell-devel] Weird implementation of wxTreeCtrl_GetBoundingRect

[Jeremy O'D. <jer...@gm...>]

On 11 January 2012 15:55, Dave Tapley <duk...@gm...> wrote:

> On 11 January 2012 00:56, Dave Tapley <duk...@gm...> wrote:
> > Does anyone know why wxTreeCtrl_GetBoundingRect is implemented [1] such
> that:
> > 1. It returns a null pointer on non-Windows platforms.
> > 2. It disregards the returned value and returns GetRect().
> >
> > It came in with: "wxhaskell-from-cvs @ 2004-09-14 10:27:48 by dleijen".
> >
> > Dave,
> >
> > [1]
> http://darcsden.com/DukeDave/wxhaskell-dev/wxc/cpp/treectrl.cpp#L-535
>
> Well, I've 'fixed' it, and it appears to work just fine in Ubuntu:
> http://darcsden.com/DukeDave/wxhaskell-dev/patch/20120111150758-a1f0b
>
> I'm still curious if anyone can answer my original two questions.
>

With respect to (1), I suspect that it is code dating back to wxWidgets 2.2
support (the 2.2. docs are no longer on line, so I can't confirm). At that
time, wxGTK was much less capable than wxMSW (it was based on GTK 1.x).

(2) baffles me completely.

Jeremy