From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2002-08-08T17:03:38+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] GUI's and the Rouge, Part IV

On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 01:26, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> If you're wanting to delay instantiating the widgets, I would
> say you *might* replace the widget itself with (say) an array
> that contained enough information to create that widget -- the
> class and any parameters to new.
> 
>   abutton = [GUtopIa::Button, any, params, we, might, need]
>   awindow = GUtopIa::Window.new
>   awindow.body = [ [ abutton ] ]
> 
> Code could easily tell that abutton was an array rather than a
> widget, and later could do
> 
>   abutton = abutton[0].new(*abutton[1..-1]) # Now I'm a real button
> 
> Just a crazy thought. Past my bedtime here.

not a bad notion. could do all of them that way and only bring them in
existence later. but i'd want to name the parameters ie.:

  abutton = { GUtopIa::Button, :any => any, :params => params, ... }
  awindow = { GUtopIa::Window, :body => [ [ abutton ] ] }

i'll think on it.

-- 
~transami