imacarthur wrote:

> Oh, right. Hmm, that wasn't what I thought Albrecht was suggesting at 
> all; I had thought this was more a budget RTTI replacement (but more 
> controlled than the current type() bitfield mechanism) - a way, when 
> searching the widget hierarchy, to distinguish quickly between Fl_Group 
> and Fl_Window widgets, and to distinguish those container widgets from 
> other non-container widgets...
> 
> I am probably wrong, though.

No, you're not wrong. It was only the next step that you missed (to use
the group or window, e.g. to access the children) where the cast would
be needed, and that was what Evan wrote about.

Albrecht
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