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Re: Retrieving the title of a widget_base after the fact. [message #50908 is a reply to message #50906]

Mon, 23 October 2006 14:36

David Fanning
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Braedley writes:

> Specifically, when the parent of the widget_base is a widget_tab.
> There's a chance that an action may be canceled by the user when data
> that would normally be over-written no longer needs to be over-written.
> Part of the process includes renaming the tab (before the decision to
> cancel can be made). However, if that tab no longer needs to be
> overwritten, I would like to set the title of the tab back to what it
> was before.
>
> Hope that wasn't too confusing. There's nothing in widget_info or
> widget_control that appear to be able to do this, so am I going to have
> to devise a means of retrieving the original title?

Well UVALUEs are always handy for this kind of thing. :-)

Cheers,

David
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