[REBOL] Re: [View] dirty?
From: ingo:2b1 at: 18-Oct-2003 11:35
Thanks to all who answered,
Volker Nitsch wrote:
> my most robust approach is:
> keep a copy of the last content and compare.
> rebol has a "culture" of changing variables directly
> (face/text: "Hello")
> and then calling a general process-function
> (like show face -> face/feel/redraw)
> with "keeping old version" you can change
> face/text with no need for some [face/dirty: true]
> -Volker
The "problem" in my case is, that I don't have a special edit mode, I
display the information, and it can at the same time be altered by the
user. Furthermore, it is a dynamically created layout with no _single_
point of exit.
It had been so nice, if the dirty flag would have been accurate, and
promoted through the hierarchy - a face get dirty, whenever one of its
subfaces gets dirty, if a parent face gets the dirty bit cleared, all
subfaces get it cleared, too.
Kind regards,
Ingo