Re: [T5] Connection between symbols and messages

2007-10-20 Thread Nick Westgate
The unification makes sense. But how would intentional overriding (as is usual for messages) versus unintentional collisions be handled? Conventions or some kind of extra scoping? Cheers, Nick. Howard Lewis Ship wrote: I don't see this as a problem, message catalog and symbols are very closely

Re: [T5] Connection between symbols and messages

2007-10-20 Thread Howard Lewis Ship
I don't see this as a problem, message catalog and symbols are very closely tied together. An interesting possibility would be for each component to have its own symbol source, derived from a related file, that tied into the global SymbolSource ... but that looks *exactly* (well almost, leave out

Re: [T5] Connection between symbols and messages

2007-10-19 Thread Jesse Kuhnert
I know from a "user" perspective I'd like to have things be able to default all the way out to symbol / global properties file definitions when developing libraries and such if possible There may be some performance or other internal framework decisions / reasoning behind it but I started to s

[T5] Connection between symbols and messages

2007-10-19 Thread Dan Adams
So right now I have a situation where I need my library to provided some default values for some things it provides. The natural place for this seems to be FactoryDefaults. The problem is that certain things are only looked up in the component messages when determining defaults and it doesn't appea