[lazarus] A Little Cleanup

[Shane Miller]

They are the same thing as the hint.  Initialy they got that name because
that's whaat they are called in gtk.  They should be changed to hints.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Curtis White <osiriz at teleport.com>
To: lazarus at miraclec.com <lazarus at miraclec.com>
Date: Saturday, July 24, 1999 12:38 PM
Subject: RE: [lazarus] A Little Cleanup


>There is one more thing I noticed that I forgot to mention. In the
controls.pp
>unit is the TControls class. There are properties called ToolTip and
>ShowToolTip. In Delphi, these are called Hint and ShowHint and there is
another
>called ParentShowHint. If we want to be compatible with Delphi, shouldn't
these
>properties be called the same?  Or are they something different.
>
>
>Curtis
>
>On 24-Jul-99 Curtis White wrote:
>> I was just working on the notebook component, trying to figure out how
this
>> whole thing works (separating out the gtk code to the gtkint.pp unit). I
>> noticed a couple things that we may want to change now before too much
code
>> gets written with them this way.
>>
>> According to the instructions, to add a new component, we add a constant
to
>> vclGlobals.pp and then again to gtkint.pp. These are the exact same
constants
>> in both units. Why not just add it to vclglobals and then include that
unit
>> in
>> the uses clause of gtkint?  Then we just have to add the constant once.
>>
>> Another thing I noticed was a function in gtkint called Converttogdk.
This
>> function converts a TColor to a gdk color. But this function name does
not
>> describe what the function does and could be really confusing. I suggest
>> changing it to more closely resemble the way Delphi does these kind of
>> functions
>> and call it ColorToGDKColor. This would describe the what the function
does
>> much
>> better. There is already a function called TColortogdkColor, but all it
does
>> is
>> create a gdkcolor record, set the color to Red and return a pointer it.
This
>> function seems pretty useless as it is. It doesn't even do anything with
the
>> color that is passed in. I think these two functions should be combined
to do
>> what they are supposed to do.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks...Curtis
>>
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