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Link: http://www.fltk.org/str.php?L2689
Version: 1.3-current


Yes, it's a mix of outdated features and bad documentation. This is a
typical case where one idea is abused by "adding just that one little
feature". Originally, a label was text *or* a symbol. Then someone said,
hey, how about a symbol, followed by text, and it was implemented. Then
someone wanted the text first, then the symbol, and it was implemented,
etc. etc. . In FLTK 2, symbols can be anywhere, they can even be images,
and there are control codes for bold, italics, font size, baseline
changes, and more.

I have visited and fixed the label code 20 times or more, and there is
always something that doesn't work. And every few months or so, someone
files a bug report that EMail addresses can not be a label.

Now this makes me wonder: wouldn't it be easier to just *reduce* the
feature set back to either a symbol *or* text, and for everything else,
the programmer should use HTML (Fl_Help_View)?

Sorry, just rambling on and on ;-)


Link: http://www.fltk.org/str.php?L2689
Version: 1.3-current

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