From: "James C. Sewell" 
@Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 16:57:25 -0500
@Sender: semware-owner{at}sawasdi.apana.org.au


Question:
   Would it be better to allow us to edit the existing .UI or to make it 
protected with hooks or function calls to do what we want?

For example, with the concepts of overwriting I have seen a lot of lately 
in VB.NET and the "pass a pointer to a function so I can call it" aspects 
of C / C++ I remember from years ago it _may_ be easy for Sammy to allow 
something like:

MyGetFunctionStr
       Function here
End Function

Register GetFunctionStr, MyGetFunctionStr

to replace the default one without making the UI into a hard to maintain 
customized file that gets trashed on the next version release and causes us 
to have to go in and reinstate our changes every time.

I don't think anyone would want to make their tool harder to maintain than 
necessary, but I'm not sure this is the best solution.  (But of course it 
seems pretty good to me ).

Simply food for thought,
       Jim

At 11:55 AM 1/25/2003 -0800, you wrote:

>I like being able to edit the file because I change some things.
>Particularly, I change the startup, main and file menus, add grep strings
>for the view functions mechanism and edit GetFunctionStr and OnChangingFiles
>to allow for other languages and extensions tse doesn't otherwise expect.

--
Jim Sewell Computing Solutions
Key West, Florida, USA



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