From: Jason Persampieri <jason@...>
Date: 2002-12-11T10:06:09+09:00
Subject: Re: FXRuby : Setting Default Height/Width in an FXList

Yeah... Unfortunately, I'll need many thousands of
these.  And there's either a memory or speed (or
both)issue with that :)  Not to mention the user will
be able to dynamically create these steps on their
own.

Jason

--- David Naseby <david.naseby@eonesolutions.com.au>
wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Jason Persampieri
> [mailto:jason@persampieri.net]
> >Sent: Wednesday, 11 December 2002 11:41 AM
> >
> >Here's my latest issue:
> >
> >I'm attempting to wipe everything from one area and
> >replace it with some other widgets.  I have two
> >strategies.
> >
> >(1) delete and recreate the parent
> >(2) delete all the child widgets of parent
> (3) Hide the parent in an FXSwitcher, and expose the
> preprepared newParent.
> 
> The third stategy depends completely on how much you
> know at build time -
> use an FXSwitcher pane and instead of destroying a
> frame, just switch the
> other one in. Its probably easiest, risks a leak the
> least (not that there
> would be one in FXRuby, of course), and has more
> clarity than throwing up
> new bunches of widgets willy nilly.
> 
> HTH
> David Naseby
>