[UI] Well, shall we do something then?

[Todd Blanchard]

On Sep 16, 2007, at 2:12 PM, tim Rowledge wrote:

> Costumes are in my opinion one of the more useful parts of the  
> tweak design. You an change the look by changing the costume.

Perhaps - but when wanting to make a custom control - it gets unclear  
(to me anyway) whether one should subclass one or both of the player/ 
class pair.  This is the bit I expect people to get wrong often.

An example is the multi-column Mac OS X file browser -  I sat down to  
try to make one of these a couple different times and never really  
got anywhere as I kept going around and around on whether I should  
just keep the existing file chooser player, but make a new costume,  
or make a new player to go along with it.

Having once built an event based system that relied on a pair of  
threads separated by a queue - I can see how debugging things can be  
a pain as you don't have that nice stack to figure out just how you  
got here.

-Todd Blanchard
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