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Re: Object epiphany: A new way of building widget applications [message #24531 is a reply to message #24526]

Thu, 05 April 2001 08:03

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Ben Tupper (pemaquidriver@tidewater.net) writes:

> Object-based GUIs are worthy of a serious look by anyone who needs GUIs
> but hates to (re)write them. And while your at it, there is no point in
> reinventing the wheel, try MGS_GUIobject.

While we are on the subject of naming conventions, the
problem with this name is that is has "object" in it,
not that it is too long because of the pre-pended initials.

I should think MSG_GUIThingy would have attracted more
converts immediately. :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. Let's just say the next person who says "objects
are easy" is going to be fined by the IDL Expert Programmers
Association for releasing our deepest held secrets!

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		Re: Object epiphany: A new way of building widget applications By: davidf on Thu, 05 April 2001 09:30
		Re: Object epiphany: A new way of building widget applications By: Ben Tupper on Thu, 05 April 2001 08:28
		Re: Object epiphany: A new way of building widget applications By: Martin Schultz on Thu, 05 April 2001 08:33
		Re: Object epiphany: A new way of building widget applications By: davidf on Thu, 05 April 2001 08:03
		Re: Object epiphany: A new way of building widget applications By: Ben Tupper on Thu, 05 April 2001 07:11
		Re: Object epiphany: A new way of building widget applications By: John-David T. Smith on Thu, 05 April 2001 07:02
		Re: Object epiphany: A new way of building widget applications By: Martin Schultz on Thu, 05 April 2001 01:43
		Re: Object epiphany: A new way of building widget applications By: John-David T. Smith on Wed, 04 April 2001 20:03
		Re: Object epiphany: A new way of building widget applications By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 04 April 2001 16:18
		Re: Object epiphany: A new way of building widget applications By: davidf on Wed, 04 April 2001 16:07
		Re: Object epiphany: A new way of building widget applications By: John-David T. Smith on Wed, 04 April 2001 15:40
		Re: Object epiphany: A new way of building widget applications By: davidf on Wed, 04 April 2001 15:01
		Re: Object epiphany: A new way of building widget applications By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 05 April 2001 11:55
		Duplicate module names. Was: Object epiphany: ... By: Kristian Kjaer on Thu, 19 April 2001 11:59
		Re: Object epiphany: A new way of building widget applications By: Ben Tupper on Thu, 05 April 2001 10:02

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