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From: matthes@MOZART.INFORMATIK.RWTH-AACHEN.DE (Matthias Eichstaedt)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.interviews
Subject: ChoiceItems
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Date: 6 Jun 91 14:07:44 GMT
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Hello,

I have two questions about the Interviews3.0:

1) The new ChoiceItem`s works with two Glyphs instead of a Glyph an a Color for
   highlighting. Now I like to build an complex object with a normal an a
   highlighted state, in which the foreground color becomes the background
   color and vice versa. Can I build this object without creating two identical
   (complex) glyphs (with only different colors) that must both be maintained
   each time the object changes its internals. For example (_patch1, _patch2,
   _l1 and _l2 are members of XY):

   XY::XY(char *name, int num) :
		  ChoiceItem(_patch1 = new Patch(nil), _patch2 = new Patch(nil))
   {
   font = World::current()->font();
   _c1 = World::current()->foreground();
   _c2 = World::current()->background();
   _patch1->body(new Background(_l1 = new LRBox(new Label(name, font, _c1),
                                                new HGlue(20),
                                                new Label(dec(num), font, _c1)),
                                _c2));
   _patch2->body(new Background(_l2 = new LRBox(new Label(name, font, _c2),
                                                new HGlue(20),
                                                new Label(dec(num), font, _c2)),
                                _c1));
   }

2) Are there new manual pages for the actual versions of the Interviews
   classes (e.g. the new ChoiceItem or Menu) ?

Thanks, Matthias

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