[REBOL] Re: [view] changing window title. -- vid 1.3 --
From: petr:krenzelok:trz:cz at: 23-Jan-2004 17:00
Gabriele Santilli wrote:
>Hi Maxim,
>
>On Friday, January 23, 2004, 3:39:05 PM, you wrote:
>
>MOA> This is NOT documented, so its not a feature, IMHO,
>MOA> its a happy side-effect to something internal within the view
>MOA> engine, this could change, only RT knows.
>
>FACE/CHANGES *is* a feature and not a side effect. It is not in
>the docs, but Holger explained it here in the past. For example,
>it is used for HW scrolling (face/changes: 'offset), to activate a
>window (face/changes: 'activate), and so on.
>
but it still seems to me as quick hack done quickly at some point. Why
should similar functionalities, which are not platform dependant, being
done that way? Why it is not handled via normal event flow? It is imo
far from being intuitive to do various things that way ...
-pekr-
