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Re: Subwindow terminology
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: Subwindow terminology |
Date: |
Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:50:58 +0900 |
martin rudalics writes:
> > I don't understand the term "subwindow" in the new window code. What's
> > the difference between a subwindow and a child window?
>
> The set of child windows of a window W is the set of windows that have W
> as their parent window. The set of subwindows of W is recursively
> defined as the set of windows whose parent is either W or a subwindow of
> W.
This is usually referred to as "descendant". Having a completely
unrelated term suggests that maybe these are GUI subwindows or
something other than "child or child of child etc".
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- Re: Subwindow terminology, Dave Abrahams, 2011/11/06
- Re: Subwindow terminology, martin rudalics, 2011/11/06
- Re: Subwindow terminology, Dave Abrahams, 2011/11/06
- Re: Subwindow terminology, martin rudalics, 2011/11/06