On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, John Levon wrote:
[...]
> Let me get specific. I have a button in Citation, "Add", that should
> be enabled if the doc is read-write, disabled if not. However, there
> is *also* the rule that it should *not* be enabled if there is no
> selection in the available-citations listbox. Now adding it as
> addReadOnly() will enable the button, as the doc is read-write, but in
> fact I might need it disabled, so I have to turn it off again.
>
> I think you suggested earlier that in this case, the button should not
> be added as addReadOnly(). This means I have to my own readonly
> checking everywhere, and seems a little bit ugly; in fact, it makes
> the buttoncontroller not very useful at all ...
>
> I hope that explains *my* problem
Okay then this should be fixable with the RBG/enum extension -- once I get
time to work on it again. Not today. Maybe tomorrow, more likely
Wednesday. I think I'll just start again from scratch since I've decided
the old way I was trying to do it was too complicated and we need a more
general solution.
Allan. (ARRae)
