[Dev] application.dialogs.Util.ok vs. wxMessageBox

[John Anderson]

Andi Vajda wrote:

>
> On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, John Anderson wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>>
>> I was reviewing the flickr parcel with Ted. We noticed:
>>
>> application.dialogs.Util.ok(wx.GetApp().mainFrame, _(u"Flickr 
>> Error"), errText)
>>
>> The wx.GetApp().mainFrame seemed awkward. Not only should it not 
>> necessary, the Util routine should use NULL internally instead of the 
>> mainFrame.
>>
>> However, wx already has methods for simple dialogs like Ok, Cancel, 
>> etc. which take the form:
>>
>> wxMessageBox(errText, _(u"Flickr Error"), wx.OK)
>>
>> I was suggesting to Ted that that the native wx routines were about 
>> as simple as any wrapper routines we could write so I would prefer to 
>> get rid of the wrappers. Ted on the otherhand thought that for simple 
>> parcels you shouldn't need to know any wx so the wrapper routines 
>> were appropriate.
>>
>> So I thought I'd ask for opinions on which option other people prefer.
>
>
> I think that exposing wx as a public API is a bad idea, it should just 
> be an implementation detail.

Does that mean for every wx routine that a parcel writer could use use 
we have to implement a wrapper routine? That's potentially a large 
portion of wx.

>
> Andi..