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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:	DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:	See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:	STAR::VATNE

Created:	Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:	Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3726
Total number of notes:	19516

2587.0. "Problem with multiple UID's" by STKHLM::MNILSSON (Mats Nilsson, ACT - Stockholm) Tue Apr 10 1990 01:53

    In the interest of "objectorientedness" I would like to use separate
    UID-files for each "object" (may be a dialog box) as opposed to one 
    big file. What I try to do is the following:
    
    open hierarchy (file = main UID)
      fetch main window
    close hierarcy
    main loop
    
    when an event triggers instantiation of "object":
    open hierarchy (file = dialog UID)
    	fetch dialog box
    close hierarchy
    
    The problem is that the fetch dialog box doesn't work - it does not
    find the dialog box. Open hierarchy doesn't return an error. 
    
    Any ideas ?

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2587.1	Is anybody out there ?	STKHLM::MNILSSON	Mats Nilsson, ACT - Stockholm	`Tue Apr 17 1990 07:08`	3
	Was the question to silly to deserve an answer or.... ? Mats
2587.2	One idea	TOOLEY::B_WACKER		`Tue Apr 17 1990 09:58`	2
	I think you're supposed to give it the whole list of files and open hierarchy once.
2587.3	Ok, but it's not what I want	STKHLM::MNILSSON	Mats Nilsson, ACT - Stockholm	`Thu Apr 19 1990 02:51`	5
	I know... but that would be inconsistent with my OO-Design. There must be sombody who can tell me if the scenario in .0 is supposed to work or not. Nothing in the documentation says it's not allowed.
2587.4	Should work...	LEOVAX::TREGGIARI		`Thu Apr 19 1990 07:57`	7
	What you are doing should work (but I'm not sure it's a good idea for performance reasons.). There is a version of UIL (I think it's DECWindows V2) that has a bug where it sometimes can't fetch objects by their name. You might try the CLT::UIL-DRM (I think it's called) conference for more information. Leo