[GUI] Setting properties of a widget.
Axel Simon
A.Simon@ukc.ac.uk
Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:56:10 +0100
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 01:22:45AM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
>
> Axel Simon wrote:
>
> > > > d) setting a property and getting a result
> > >
> > > This would be most useful for setting callbacks and
> > > returning the removeHandler. Is there any other place
> > > where this would be useful? Perhaps this is a special
> > > case?
> >
> > Might be. But callbacks are very important and there will be plenty of
> > them. So it would be nice to have the same infrastructure for them as for
> > the other attributes.
>
> I don't think that it makes sense to treat callbacks as attributes.
> The underlying UI toolkits don't generally take this approach.
Gtk treats them as attributes. But I take your point. Callbacks would
otherwise be the only "attributes" which return something when they are
set.
So I'd vote for this.
Axel.