Hi, Eric,

(I wish I could have replied earlier, but this past weekend was very busy.)

Thanks to replies from you and Mads I'm back in business.

At 9:13 AM +0100 5/15/08, Eric Y. Kow wrote:
>Hi Dean,
>
>I'm very sorry nobody got back to you.  Personally, I filed your message
>away in my pending queue and marked it 'reread'.
>
>By the way, it might help to attach your examples in an easy
>compile-and-run format, as I have hopefully done.  It just smooths
>out these discussions a little bit! :-)

Good idea.  Will do next time.

>
>On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 01:10:58 -0400, Dean Herington wrote:
>>  I reread Daan's original paper and found a hint that layouts need to
>>  mention each widget exactly once (though I can't find anything
>>  definitive in documentation for either wxhaskell or wxwidgets).
>>  Obeying that "rule" avoids the garbling, but I'm still not able
>>  successfully to change the layout repeatedly.
>
>Could you attach your modified code?  My experience with wxhaskell is
>that once you create a widget, it's going to be displayed, so you might
>as well lay it out somewhere.

Yes, you and Mads helped me figure that out.  I believe I now 
understand all the anomalies I saw.

>
>>  Even if I could, how
>>  then would I show different subsets of widgets at different times?
>
>You could set the visible attribute.
>See attachment.

Ah, thanks for the tip.

>
>I do not claim that this is the right way to go about things.  Maybe
>somebody like Mads or Shelarcy would have a better idea.

In fact, Mads's suggestion does work better for my application.  (See 
my upcoming reply to him.)

>
>Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>

Thanks again.  And sorry I overreacted at my earlier frustration.

Dean

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