In <[email protected]>, on 12/08/2011
at 05:58 PM, Chuck Arney <[email protected]> said:
>However there are downsides too.
"You can't do only one thing." The question is whether the collateral
damage is worse than the collateral damage with other approaches.
I tend[1] to use standard interfaces when appropriate, but I don't
know enough about your requirements to judge.
>Without the field being defined as the
>command field of course it is not affected by the user setting to
>place the command line on the bottom of the screen.
That's a SMOP ;-)
>So, now I have to decide if the fixed command line placement
It doesn't have to be fixed if you're willing to do extra work.
Whether that's worth it is your call.
[1] Partly because of the sorts of issues that you've mentioned. I
hate to reinvent the wheel.
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