Gervase Markham wrote:
>
> > Developer newsgroups? I don't see '.developers.only' anywhere in the
> > title. I do see '.public',
>
> This is another artefact of that quick newsgroup setup we mentioned. I
> refer you again to the proposal to change the names. In the new news
> hierarchy, there will be developers groups and users groups.
>
Fair enough. When you guys get your act together on the newsgroup
shingles, I'll be sure to stay out of any ".developers.only"
newsgroups. Well, unless I have hard test data to report or something.
I'm sure that will be well recieved. In the mean time, please don't
take me to task for on-topic posting in a ".public.general" newsgroup.
> > And am I mistaken, or has nobody yet come up with a passable explanation
> > as to why the file save dialogs have been singled out as 'native is OK',
> > while virtually nothing else is, eg tree controls?
>
> Because, as someone else explained, the API for a file dialog is "Get me a
> filename, please". That for a tree control is somewhat more complex,
Not much more. "Display this tree of items, please". "Tell me the
current selection".
> and
> we wanted a superset of the functionality on all platforms, not a subset
> (like AWT.)
>
So it's least-common-denominator then? So you're basically drawing
every pixel with an interpreted command?
> Gerv
