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From: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Wish list for R5
Message-ID: <797@auto-trol.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 90 00:32:44 GMT
References: <9008161931.AA21572@erik.uucp>
Reply-To: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver
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In article <9008161931.AA21572@erik.uucp> randy@erik.UUCP (Randy Brown) writes:
>>Both of the aforementioned problems require more than a static description
>>of a widget hierarchy and resources as provided by UIL or WCL.
>
>Since WCL includes not only a string-to-widget converter but a string-to-
>callback converter, it's perhaps not quite as static as you might think,
>though I'm sure Niels has a point--there's a limit somewhere.

... plus on systems which support dynamic (runtime) binding such as
    Apollo or (with some tweaking) VMS, your string-to-callback
    convertor can be upgraded to load your new code when needed.

But, I agree that Niels has a point. We can enhance WCL to destroy/recreate
things on fly (assuming Xt intrinsics will improve to make it aceptable),
we can provide callbacks that will reconfigure any portions of widget tree,
but we still need more.


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