ICaptionControl

[earlevel]

I was wondering about the purpose of ICaptionControl—in the IPlugControls example, it seems indiscernible from ITextControl, and there are past threads where people seems equally confused about what it's supposed to do. Well, I needed an editable text control, and coded one, then noticed that's what ICaptionControl is intended to do.

First, ICaptionControl seems like a poor name for an editable text control, since captions are typically static, and I'm sure that's why the past forum confusion about it. (And, not grousing, but there really should be at least a one-line comment on the purpose of such classes in the source.) But my guess is that it worked at one time (hence the example in IPlugControls), but something changed in IControl...

The problem: IControl defaults to mDisablePrompt = true. Obviously, ICaptionControl needs to set it false for the example to work (or the example needs to call DisablePrompt(false)).

[Tale]

I'm not sure when or why (although everything disabled by default makes some sense I guess) mDisablePrompt's default was changed to false, in my IPlug it still defaults to true I think. But for ICaptionControl indeed that doesn't make sense.

[olilarkin]

TBH - I never really used ICaptionControl, just made my own IControl, would not be surprised if the code had rotted a bit in WDL-OL

[earlevel]

Originally Posted by olilarkin

TBH - I never really used ICaptionControl, just made my own IControl, would not be surprised if the code had rotted a bit in WDL-OL

Yes, it's a trivial control—it would not have been worth commenting about except for the fact that it's included in IControl.