| Re: Top 10 for old farts [message #20998 is a reply to message #20847] |
Thu, 03 August 2000 00:00   |
Martin Schultz
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Registered: August 1997
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Luis Alonso wrote:
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> Today i've spent a whole afternoon (from 3pm to 21:30pm, -yes, i'm a late
> nite thinker not as David-) just to build a widget to select n-choices from
> a list... geez, that IDL handbook is cryptic indeed (japanese if far easier
> to understand), and although it works i'm pretty sure it could be far easier
> implemented. And at the very end it shows that it wasn't that much
> difficult, but it was a pain trying to figure out the way widgets work from
> the lousy examples... (no use trying to read the text: nowhere is explained
> what 'pro widget2_event, ev' is and even less what that ev structure is and
> means. The example shows how to build a list, but is never shown how to
> retrieve the values chosen from that list -that's what took me most of the
> time-).
>
Hmm, you could probably have saved at least four hours had you gone
through David's widget examples instead of reading the manuals. At
least, this is how I learned to deal with these things (admittedly, I
had to look twice before I understood anything at all).
Martin
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