[comp.windows.x.motif] UIL grammar questions

david@ics.com (David B. Lewis) (06/28/90)

(sorry if this is a repost; the mail never made it back here.)

Both of these work, almost certainly through the courtesy of a coincidence
of implementation. Are they acceptable practice, and can we expect that
they will continue to work:

1) having a child control'ed by multiple parents

2) having a parent control multiple children all of the same name and type;
e.g. I want ten toggle buttons, so I control my toggle button 10 times and
deal with differences through an XmNcreateCallback.

Thanks.

nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) (06/28/90)

> of implementation. Are they acceptable practice, and can we expect that
> they will continue to work:
> 
> 1) having a child control'ed by multiple parents
>
> 2) having a parent control multiple children all of the same name and type;

I could be wrong, but my memory is that DEC touted this as one of
the (few:-) advantages of UIL.
						-kee

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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.

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