On Friday 26 July 2013 20:49:33 Sieghard wrote: > Hallo Martin, > > Du schriebst am Fri, 26 Jul 2013 06:08:18 +0200: > > [complexity] > > > tlabel does a preprocessing in the opposite direction too so I think > > it is not bad to introduce an option which eliminates the need for > > both. > > Yes, and I'd say that a _label_ doesn't need the ability for prompt > character designation processing at all, so the very basis for the > option hick-hack would be missing in the first place - much less > complexity for the whole system.
The underline in caption properties is a marker for the Alt+CharacterKey input focus change target, a Delphi relict. In order to display simple text use tstringdisp (as I advised minoshi), in order to show formatted text use trichstringdisp. trichstringdisp does not use markup but has a "richvalue" property of type richstringty. " richstringty = record text: msestring; format: formatinfoarty; flags: richflagsty; end; " > (On the other hand, if there is this special capability for a _label_, > why's it missing the ability to show other markups then, like bold, > italic and such? I guess it's just a disregarded relic from an - > overfeatured - ancestor class.) > > > True. Users who got MSEgui features in their favor should be > > obligated to maintain the documentation. ;-) > > Agreed, if they requested this special feature explicitly. > I remember situations, though, where a user asked how to handle some > situation, and the system author responded with a suggestion for > another feature or option, immediately followed by the announcement of > its (experimental, yet in the main branch) implementation - and a > user's response to the effect that the issue was solved otherwise. > Too late... I try to fullfill the user needs in a most universal and orthogonal way. Often instead to implement a special feature I remove a limitation of a already existing functionality or add a flag in option set property. Option flags use a single bit in a 32 bit number only and are memory efficient. > (You certainly know the german phrase "voreilender Gehorsam"? :->) > Yes, indeed, I think you're often overresponsive. > I try to make MSEgui so that the users can work with it in the manner they like, they should not be forced to use a specific pattern. So I always try to remove limitations even if my own code never will suffer from the limitations and if I don't like how the user builds his application. Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
