| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
| Total number of notes: | 19516 |
The following was posted in decwindow programmsing, where it
recieved no attention. I've added a more requsts.
I think that Attachments are powerful and a bit daunting. I
suspect they were quite daunting to the documentation team
(which is *OK*). I'd like the next round of documentation to
be more helpful.
-< DECwindows Programming hints/kinks >-
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Note 748.0 please define/explain "attachment" No replies
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Would someone provide a definition of "attachment" in the context
of attached dialog boxes? I've read the appropriate sections in the
Guide to Application Programming and I've looked at a couple of
examples. But I don't have a warm fuzzy feeling about how to use them.
I believe that I want to use attachments because I don't want to
specify positions of children in a window, I want the "computer" to
place them for me, subject to certain constraints.
Attachments influence the possition of children in attached dialog
boxes. They also can influence the possition of said children as the
box is resized.
* I'd like to see:
How and when do you folks use attachments
* A formal description of what they are supposed to do. (pretty
please? then I could try to Reason about what each attribute
is going to do.)
* An example showing each attribute, and how sets of attributes
* interact.
-pk.
who has already gotten a better understanding of the
various aspects of attachments just by writing this note.
P.S. Do you think that the documentation is sufficient? I'm not
suggesting that the writers didn't do a good job; I'm hoping we can
generate some feedback for how it could be improved. I'd like to be
able to read the documentation, then code up an example, without having
to hack around for very long. I do read the manual before coding,
unlike many programmers (and tech writers!) I know :-)
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| 2612.1 | When can a parent ADB clip a child? | HPSRAD::KOMAR | the (w)hole story | Fri Apr 13 1990 15:47 | 10 |
Since writing the previous note (in decw-programming), I've been
playing with helloworld.uil. In one of my attempts, the ADB clips the
label! Sounds like a bug, but I can't figure out whether it is a uil
programming bug, or something deeper. So here is a question:
When should an ADB clip its children (without resizing)?
-pk.
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| 2612.2 | I can think of a few | DECWIN::KLEIN | Fri Apr 13 1990 16:25 | 12 | |
> When should an ADB clip its children (without resizing)? (1) When there are bugs in the connections that would force the ADB to ignore some of them, (2) When there is a negative margin specified (3) When one of the attach_adb connections has a negative offset, (4) Can't think of any others but I'm sure there are some. -steve- | |||||
| 2612.3 | For more info... | STAR::WURM | Wed Apr 25 1990 09:25 | 3 | |
For more information on attachments, see the low-level routine ATTACHED
DIALOG BOX CREATE in the VMS DECwindows Toolkit Routines Reference
Manual.
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