View>>parentView:

> The behavior of View>>parentView: has changed in D6. It now assumes all
> views should be child views regardless of what the parent/owner view
> is. (ShellView overrides this with the D5 implementation of
> View>>parentView:).
>
> This breaks a couple of my view subclasses. For example, I have a view
> subclass that uses WS_EX_LAYERED style which can only be used with top
> level windows.
>
> D5's implementation of View>>parentView: seemed a fairly natural
> default to me. Is there a reason for the change? Could the method be
> refactored or be made public, so that I can officially override it in
> my subclasses?
>
> My preference would be to extract to a new method, the test of whether
> the view should have the WS_CHILD style. This would make it easier to
> control whether the creationParent is actually the parent or owner of
> the view.