standard dialogs captions (was: ANN: wxWidgets 2.7.1 released)

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:55:06 +0100 Troels <tk at tk.tk> wrote:

T> Before 2.7, you could control the message box default caption, like this
T> wxMessageBoxCaptionStr = wxStrdup(_("Message")));
T> or
T> wxMessageBoxCaptionStr = wxStrdup(GetAppName());

 This was *never* supported.

T> In 2.7.x, it's hardwired to wx("Message").
T> 
T>  >I don't believe these messages were ever
T>  >supposed to be modifiable from outside the library.
T> 
T> Flexible is better...

 Flexible API is better. The above is not flexible, but just a dirty hack
which happened to work by chance before.

T>  > But they should indeed be translated.
T> 
T> ...Translated or not, the default caption "Message" is not likely to 
T> please many.

 I agree with this and I also think we should allow customizing this but
directly changing a private variable is not the right way to do it.

 Regards,
VZ

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