[GUI] Setting properties of a widget.

John Meacham john@repetae.net
Mon, 31 Mar 2003 07:33:01 -0800


On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 04:24:40PM +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:

> >  mandatory arguments could be modeled by arguments to whatever the
> >  widget creation function is. since said arguments are not mutable,
> >  exposing them via the get/set interface doesn't seem to make as much
> >  sense. 
> But are we sure that there aren't mandatory arguments that can be
> subsequently changed? These seems two orthogonal concepts to me.

yeah, I just meant that since we can use arguments to the constructor
for manditory values, there is no need to invent a specialized mechanism
for them within the general get/set paradigm.
        John

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