Le ven, nov 30, 2001, � 07:55:22 -0700, Andrew S . Halper a �crit:
> There are commuters in France? (!)
That must sound strange to you, eh ? Some people actually do about 1 hour
each way. For me, that wasn't a too bad commute, at the beginning: 30 min.
each way, but unfortunately, that was 30 min. of driving (the day there is a
HUD, windshield-mounted html reader with eye movement recognition available in
cars 10% more expensive than what I can afford, I guarantee you I'm buying)
But add 1.5 hours idling alone in the office (eating basically salads, d�ner
kebab or big macs), and it quickly grows tiresome. Soon, that's going to be
a matter of 5 min. walking. Phew.
> Would it be preferable for me to 1) write some fiendish electric Frankenstein of
> StdProp and the older interface in my plug-in, or 2) attempt to write the UML
> StdProp bits that I need?
>
> I'll admit that most of the StdProp C-as-OOL code I've seen is at a level of C
> technical proficiency that is beyond me, but on the other hand, I do an
> abundance spare time, and could probably make a decent try at it eventually.
What I envisioned was factorise as much code as possible; through StdProp or
through any other means (for instance, the improvement I suggested a couple
days ago wrt arrow type selection widgets proceeds from that school of
thought. For me, less code for about the same result means less bugs).
Enough of philotheoretical ramblings; C-as-OOL is really less complicated
than what it looks like; one just has to explicitly drag around "this" and
build one's own vtables (OTOH, you can do some pretty Python-esque things in
C-as-OOL you can't in C++; like, alter at runtime the vtable of an instance
to change the implementation of a method. Sounds complicated ? It's not, if
you see a function pointer not as a function pointer, but as a single-entry
vtable...). So, to finish, my advice wrt what you want to write: it would
probably means less code and more reuse if you could write the
controls/property types you lack as more StdProp types; you'll certainly
want to investigate (and debug <grin/>) the "action" field I wrote support
for (in the view of stdpropising the UML Class), but never got around to use
more than in a "hello, world" example (you'll find examples of it if you dig
the ChangeLog, circa end of July 2001).
In any case, good luck. I'll probably remain a spectator for a while.
-- Cyrille
--
Grumpf.
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