Re: Dialog.List not extensible

From: Douglas G. Danforth <"Douglas>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:33:36 -0800

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Josef,
Might I suggest you create a new control type since a Dialog.List
is just a paring of (integer, string) and (I think) you want either
(integer, object) or (integer, string, object).
-Doug

Josef Templ wrote:
> Hi Everybody!
>
> I have noticed that Dialog.List is not an extensible record.
> May be there are good reasons from the implementation point,
> but as a user I want to be able to extend it in order
> to connect the list with appropriate application objects.
>
> Without the ability to extend Dialog.List an application needs to
> maintain auxiliary data structures (for mapping the list of values
> to application objects) outside the Dialog.List structure, which
> destroys any program structure.
>
> The only work around I have found so far is to wrap a Dialog.List in
> an enclosing record, but this implies that the resource file has to
> use a different link field.
>
> Any suggestions?
> OMS: Why is Dialog.List none extensible?
>
> - Josef Templ
>
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