Re: Custom gadgets in a frame

To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Custom gadgets in a frame
From: Scott Ribe <sribe@miqs.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 12:30:02 -0400 (EDT)
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Scott McKay wrote:
> 
> Andy Armstrong and I had planned to make all the win32-duim gadgets
> be open and abstract, with a sealed instantiable class for each open
> abstract class.  Then we would export the abstract classes, and people
> could extend the Win32 gadgets.  Do people think this is important?
> It's not hard, but it does displace potentially more important work.

This is one of the points in my pile of feedback that I've not had time
to get back to FO. I needed to extend the concrete platform-specific
gadgets for new behavior and could not. I didn't think of using the
wrapper approach, so I don't know if that would have worked well. (Seems
like it would?)

References:

Re: Custom gadgets in a frame

From: "Andy Armstrong" <andy.armstrong@mailcity.com>

Re: Custom gadgets in a frame

From: chris@double.co.nz (Chris Double)

Re: Custom gadgets in a frame

From: "Scott McKay" <swm@mediaone.net>