| Re: No, no, not again! [message #13566 is a reply to message #13486] |
Tue, 17 November 1998 00:00  |
David Foster
Messages: 341
Registered: January 1996
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Stein Vidar Hagfors Haugan wrote:
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> In article <MPG.10bb10ccfad542209896da@news.frii.com>
> davidf@dfanning.com (David Fanning) writes:
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>> David Foster (foster@bial1.ucsd.edu) writes:
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>>> Along these same lines, I have always disliked the limitation that
>>> you can only use the WIDGET_BASE(..., MBAR=menu_widID ) keyword
>>> for top-level base widgets. This precludes the use of this handy
>>> feature for any widget that might need to be called from within
>>> another widget...quite a limitation in my opinion.
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>> I don't understand what you mean by "any widget that might
>> need to be called from within another widget". Can you
>> elaborate? Certainly any widget program that has its
>> own top-level base can have a menu bar and be called
>> from any other widget program. I'm confused by what you
>> mean.
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> I think David Foster just dropped one or two qualifiers, but then his
> statement is correct: "any (potentially modal) widget that might need
> to be called from within another widget". "Potentially modal" here
> means "modal if called from within another widget".
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> From the widget_base online documentation (MBAR keyword):
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> Caution You cannot specify both the MBAR and MODAL keywords for
> the same widget. Doing so will cause an error.
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> Also, modal widgets cannot be scrollable.
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Thank-you Stein Vidar, that is exactly what I meant (and didn't say!);
you can't use MBAR for any widget that you would like to call as a
modal widget.
Dave
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