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From: mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: XView Programming Style
Keywords: XView
Message-ID: <7207@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: 18 Mar 91 14:53:45 GMT
References: <1991Mar13.193948.16328@sol.UVic.CA>
Organization: University of Southampton, UK
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In <1991Mar13.193948.16328@sol.UVic.CA> awatkins@lager.UVic.CA (Andrew  Watkins) writes:

>Hi!

>I am writing a reasonably large program using XView to create the user
>interface. With this program I have a bunch of popup window (~7) and
>I'm adding more all the time. At present I create all of my windows
>when the program starts up and set the visibility off for all the
>windows I'm not using. Is this bad form? Should I create my windows as
>they are needed and destroy them when I'm done or does it really
>matter?

Good question. This is how I do it too, but when I told my friend the
Microsoft Windows/Presentation Manager programmer he nearly had a
heart attack. He went on about the memory and the system resources and
stuff. I reckon this way is neater because you can do things to the
windows when they are invisible. Besides, creating the windows does seem
to take a while sometimes.

				Mark.