DragASprite_Start

Tony van der Hoff tony at mk-net.demon.co.uk
Wed Jul 30 15:19:37 BST 2003


On 30 Jul 2003, in message <22fb1f1a4c%Marco at dionin.esw-heim.tu-clausthal.de>,
Marco Baye <Marco.Baye at tu-clausthal.de> wrote:

> > [snip]
> 
> > Maybe it's possible to add this missing
> > link to the "Description" field of all operations that support these
> > constants?
> 
> > Another possibility would be to define two distinctly named
> > constants for every operation that supports the two values, but that
> > sounds rather messy...
> 
> A third possibility: Add a new type.
> 
>   typedef osspriteop_area wimpspriteop_area
> 
> ...and the help page for wimpspriteop_area would then give info on
> the two constants. All operations supporting the constants would
> then have to be re-typed to use wimpspriteop_area instead of
> osspriteop_area.
> 

Noo, backward compatibility would be lost, for very little gain.

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