Hi Bruce-
Bruce Flynn wrote:
I'm doing some work on a TabbedUIManager for McV which essentially
intercepts createNewWindow calls and makes tabs out of them. My issue
is that in IdvUIManager.createNewWindow there is code that shows the
window if IDV.okToShowWindows is true. I would like to let the caller,
TabbedUIManager in this case, decide if they want to show the window
based on some other conditions. I know I could just do this in my
overridden createNewWindow but in reality I would just cut and paste all
the current code and remove the show code. Since I only need 1 little
change I thought a better solution might be to add a createNewWindow
signature that allows the caller to specify whether they would like to
show the window or not, createNewWindow(List, bool, String, String,
Element, bool showWhenCreated) perhaps. Another solution might be to
remove the show code all together and make it the callers responsibility
to make the show decision but I don't think this would be as backward
compatible.
I think the new signature is the way to go.
I did modify the IdvUIManager code and implement the new signature
solution for testing and it seems to work well for my purposes at least.
Send me your version of IdvUIManager and I'll incorporate it
into CVS.
Don
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