On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 12:53:50PM +1030, Beck, Andrew Thomas - BECAT001 wrote: > I am working on a patch for 1.4pre to allow renaming of macro > templates and modifying the number of arguments. It all works, except > the case that a macro template has already been instantiated within > the text. Specifically, I would like to grow the argument list as > required. The most straight forward place to do this is in metrics(), > however this is obviously dodgy because a) it's a const function b) > although the metrics will change, it's probably not the intended > function of this function > > Anyway, changing cells_ in MathNestInset to mutable get's around a), > but it's dodgy. My other option is to create a non-const update() > function for MathArray's & call that prior to calling metrics() in > text.C. Given that this is a one off issue, it seems a bit wastefull > to cycle through everything twice. So, my question is, where is an > appropriate place to resize the argument list of a MathMacro object > when it's associated MathMacroTemplate has been modified - > specifically the number of arguments?
Not in metrics. metrics is only there to compute and cache the size of an inset. Provide some 'changeArgs' function or something like that. Andre'
