Every control that has children probably does inherit from Parent, I'm not
concerned about those controls. Not all controls on your page inherit from
Parent, those are the ones that I am talking about. This means that they do
not have the hasChildren() method. This then means that if I am iterating
through all controls on a form I am going to get some that do not have
hasChildren() and when I call hasChildren() on that control, I will get an
error. Does that make sense. It will once you try it for yourself. I added
that method to Object so that every control will at least return false when
the method is called. You may not have needed this method yet but I have,
and when you can't rely on it being there for every control it makes looping
through the controls very difficult.
On the methods for a control, if a new user isn't aware of the various
sub-components of a control how are they going to know where to look to find
a certain method or property? If they are all available from the root
control, the user has a single place to go to find what they are looking
for. I speak from experience. I am more aware then the average user and I
still have to navigate all the different parts of the Table to find the
property or method I am looking for. I would much rather see a long list of
everything available, then a bunch of smaller lists that are all hidden from
view and I have to go looking for them. After reading many of the posts in
this list I am not the only one that feels this way.
Jim
On 4/24/07, dperez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Jim,
If you see a class with hundreds of properties and methods, you can get a
little overwhelmed, divide and conquer.
This doesn't mean that methods/properties shouldn't be reviewd.
I think that every control that has children inherits from Parent, like
ComboBox, Spinner, Table, ....
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