On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Oliver Sims <
oliver.s...@simsassociates.co.uk> wrote:
> I initially found it quite difficult to separate out the various kinds of
> dialogs, sheets, property pages, etc. Maybe it's me. But anyway, after
> sorting myself out with oyur help, I'd suggest making a coupelk of chnages
> to the intro to Property Seets and Control Dialogs. The are:
>
> Ref Chap 4, "PropertySheet and Control Dialogs", 3rd para in chapter
> (p.533):
> "Windows has a style for dialogs that allows the dialog to work well as a
> dialog within a top-level dialog."
>
> Suggest adding "also" so that it reads:
> "Windows also has a style for dialogs that allows the dialog to work well
> as a dialog within a top-level dialog."
>
That can certainly be changed. It might be even better to use
a <variablelist> with 2 terms. One PropertySheetDialog Dialogs and one
Control Dialogs to better separate the 2 discussions.
> Rationale - this better separates the two "kinds" of property-sheet
> dialogs.
>
But there aren't two kinds of property sheet dialogs. There is only one
property sheet dialog. There are 2 approaches to embedding pages in a tab
control. And even that is not technically correct, there are more than 2.
Maybe: ooDialog supports 2 approaches to embedding pages in a tab control.
> When I first read this, I thought this was a re-statement, in different
> words, of the first two paras. It took me a long time to work out that
> there are two alternatives - "Property Sheet Dialogs" (containing a number
> of PSP dialogs) and "Resource File Dialogs" (optionally containing a number
> of Control dialogs).
>
> If you agree, then I'd suggest another change:
> "Windows also has a style for dialogs that allows the dialog to work well
> as a dialog within a top-level or "resource file" dialog."
> Maybe the text "resource file" could be linked to Chapter 6.
>
>
That is not really correct. It has nothing to do with resource file
dialogs. It is any top-level dialog
> Finally, after the last para in the intro, I'd suggest another very short
> para:
> "In summary, there are two quite separate approaches to providing nested
> dialogs: Control Dialogs in normal User-Res-Rc dialogs and Property Sheet
> Pages in a Property Sheet Dialog." The former allows controls to be
> specified in the main dialog; the latter does not.
>
A summary paragraph is good. But, I would prefer to talk about dialogs
that are used as, or for, the pages of a tab control rather than nested
dialogs.
--
Mark Miesfeld
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