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Re: how to bypass this swing limit

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From	Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
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Date	Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:48:02 -0700
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On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:14:02 -0700 (PDT), Peter Cheung
<cmk128@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said
:

>Dear All
>   how to by pass this swing limit:
>Each GUI component can be contained only once.
> If a component is already in a container and you try to add it to another container, 
>the component will be removed from the first container and then added to the second.

The obvious answer is clone the component, and make sure you keep them
up to date with the same state, e.g. by inventing a virtual component
that you update that in turn updates a list of clones for you.

Be careful with this kind of logic you don't create endless
notification loops.

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Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
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Your top priority should be fixing bugs. If you carry on development, 
you are just creating more places you will have to search for them.

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how to bypass this swing limit Peter Cheung <cmk128@gmail.com> - 2011-09-16 09:14 -0700
  Re: how to bypass this swing limit Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-09-16 18:31 +0200
    Re: how to bypass this swing limit Peter Cheung <cmk128@gmail.com> - 2011-09-16 09:47 -0700
      Re: how to bypass this swing limit Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-09-16 19:07 +0200
      Re: how to bypass this swing limit David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2011-09-16 16:15 -0400
  Re: how to bypass this swing limit Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-16 14:48 -0700
    Re: how to bypass this swing limit Peter Cheung <cmk128@gmail.com> - 2011-09-19 03:29 -0700

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