[haiku-development] Re: BAlert with > 3 buttons?

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 16:45:23 +0200 CEST

Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Maybe add just an AddButton() method to define further buttons
> > (eventually with shortcut)?
> > AFAIK an application cannot make any assumptions in a BAlert beyond
> > it
> > containing a BTextView and some buttons - it shouldn't matter if it
> > uses the layout engine or not.
> Well, the main concern for me is apps that do things like move the
> buttons around manually and add some extra widget of their own (i.e.
> a
> custom graphic or whatnot). This would break quite badly if the
> layout
> engine was in place since those apps would most likely be using the
> old way of doing things.

Well, at least we would find those apps that way; maybe there aren't
any, after all. Also, this shouldn't be really that bad either; ie. the
won't become unusable because of that.

Bye,
   Axel.


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