>This is a formal request to provide relief for several situations that
>exist.
We hear you. Part of the reason for a lack of more prompt response to this
or other requests is that we're actively in the process of determining
exactly which accessors we can, should, and will create. Your explanations
in this note were helpful in that they provided good grounding for the
requests, which helps us make a rational decision instead of a gut feel or
a "well, it might be useful, so..."
The first three suggestions were quite reasonable, at least IMHO.
>4) I can't "clone" a button...
I'm not sure we would add such a routine, if instead we had ways to get or
set each of the supported attributes individually. I presume that a cloning
routine wouldn't be necessary in that scenario?
>Additional request: I'd also like to have a way to recover a Ptr by passing
>a function the address within a chunk.
I'm not sure about this one; it would require walking the heap(s) and would
be less likely to be appropriate or applicable in the future. Perhaps
since it was you who created the tSTL, you could guarantee to yourself that
there wasn't a prefix string...? Or depending on how many of these you
have, it'd be easy for you to have a small table to correlate the first
string's pointer to the handle, or even store a start pointer and a
blocklength, just like an OS heap walking routine would do.
Thanks for the input on the UI accessors, though; it comes at a good time.
-David Fedor
Palm, Inc.
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