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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/29/2018 10:27 AM, Jeff Young wrote:
> In this case we kind of need it as we don’t want to display a bunch of never-used field data columns, but everyone’s definition of “never-used” is likely to be different.

If you have time, by all means implement this feature for windows and
linux users.  I'm sure once they discover it, they will appreciate it.

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> But I certainly agree in principle.

It's one of the things I love to hate about wxWidgets.  It does a pretty
good job of keeping the native UI look and feel but makes development
more difficult because if you are not careful, the platform differences
will bite you.

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>> On 29 Mar 2018, at 15:17, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Also, please keep in mind that one of the objectives of wxwidgets is to
>> stick with the stock look and behavior of platform controls as much as
>> possible.  Users on windows and linux will not expect this behavior even
>> though it might be a nice feature on macos.
>>
>> On 3/29/2018 9:32 AM, Jon Evans wrote:
>>> I think we should measure the amount of time we spend fixing or
>>> extending wxWidgets vs. doing anything else.
>>> I'm not proposing that we should be doing anything else in particular at
>>> this time, but I think it would be good data to have.
>>>
>>> -Jon
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 8:55 AM, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx
>>> <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    Remember that compliment I threw wxWidget’s way a week or so ago
>>>    regarding a menu to hide/show grid columns?
>>>
>>>    Yeah, well, it turned out it was the Mac native header control doing it.
>>>
>>>    I’ll implement the equivalent in GRID_TRICKS….
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