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Re: Toolbox differences

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On 12 Jun, in article
<bf5b2374-7ee2-4c19-84ae-71383c989c9d@v18g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>,
   Christopher Bazley <chrisbazley@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> On Jun 10, 10:32 am, Martin <New...@avisoft.f9.co.uk> wrote:

[Snip]

> > My conclusion is that improvement will not be practical until a
> > common, updated version of TextGadgets is publically available for
> > all machines. We can but hope. </quote>

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> I have very nearly finished an almost complete rewrite of the
> ScrollList gadget which should fix all known bugs. As you can imagine,
> the number of unit tests required to assure better quality than the
> current version is huge (hundreds). Therefore this has taken me about
> 2 years.

That would be wonderful news ... *if* it will become generally available. 

It it is not, I fear that your valiant efforts (and I do appreciate the
time it must have taken) will be largely wasted, because developers will
still have to cater for the older versions which ARE available on the
various RISC OS platforms, unable to be replaced by your much improved
version.

> Regarding co-operation, I absolutely agree with you. However a 'free-
> for-all' situation without code reviews and discussion of Toolbox
> interface changes and extensions would be very damaging.

I was not advocating a free-for-all! Changes to such core routines
obviously need to be done with careful design and control.

As I wrote in 2008: We can but hope.

Martin

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Toolbox differences Mister Ron <mrronman@googlemail.com> - 2011-06-09 15:21 -0700
  Re: Toolbox differences Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2011-06-10 10:32 +0100
    Re: Toolbox differences Mister Ron <mrronman@googlemail.com> - 2011-06-10 10:14 -0700
    Re: Toolbox differences chrisbazley@bigfoot.com - 2011-06-12 04:45 -0700
      Re: Toolbox differences Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2011-06-12 16:59 +0100
      Re: Toolbox differences wpb <willblatchley@yahoo.com> - 2011-06-12 11:37 -0700
  Re: Toolbox differences Rik Griffin <rik.griffin@btinternet.com> - 2011-06-10 11:08 +0100
    Re: Toolbox differences Mister Ron <mrronman@googlemail.com> - 2011-06-10 10:17 -0700

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