Re: IdvUIManager.createNewWindow

• To: Bruce Flynn <brucef@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: IdvUIManager.createNewWindow
• From: Don Murray <dmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:20:34 -0600

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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• References:
  • IdvUIManager.createNewWindow
    • From: Bruce Flynn