From: Kero van Gelder <kero@...>
Date: 2002-08-09T06:23:16+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] GUI's and the Rouge, Part IV

On Thu, 08 Aug 2002 00:51:37 +0200, Tom Sawyer wrote:

>> To give an idea of usability: I'm running an addressbook app with it on my
>> iPAQ. It is far from finished, but very much alive.
> 
> quick question for you kero (cool name by the way),
> 
> i read over the wise user guide. one of the things gutopia requires is
> to be able to create widgets without parents and allow the parents to
> pick them up later. do i just use nil as the widget's parent for this? 

nil-parent causes the window to be top-level, as for Ruby/Tk.

> becasue the fox toolkit requires a parent i had to create an invisible
> "foo" window that held the widgets until the parent needed them. kind of
> a kludge.

reparenting is a kludge. Ruby-Wise can't reparent, yet.