Dialog.List not extensible

From: [at]} <Josef>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:33:13 +0100

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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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