Re: Fwd: Re: PROP_TYPE_LIST declaration [lrclause cs uiuc edu]

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le Fri, Apr 11, 2003, Ã 12:35:44PM -0500, Lars Clausen a Ãcrit:
>
> > You're thinking about the PropDescription array.  Remember, there are
> > two arrays to fill out (Cyrille, why is that?  Could they be combined?):
>
> I think James is the right person to ask the question to, though I've put
> my hands there a lot too. The fundamental reason (IIRC) is that you have
> on one hand the property description, which give you the presentation
> side (flags, localised names, etc.) and on the other the specific offsets
> which applies to a specific type.  Consider what happens when you edit
> the properties of a group: the system first tries to find the
> intersection of all property descriptor sets; then for each of the
> remaining propdesc and for each object (of various types), it will locate
> the correct offset.

I could see a problem there.

> I think I have considered at a point combining them, but while I was deep
> in the StdProp code, I think I found out the hard way it was not a good
> idea, so I backtracked. Sadly, I don't remember the detailed "why" :-)

I had that feeling.  It's not something that we should tear up the carpet
over right now, that's for sure.

-Lars

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