| From: | Paul Hill |
| Date: | 10 Aug 2000 at 10:26:32 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga is #7 |
"G.A.Griggs" wrote:
>
> Hello Paul
>
> On 09-Aug-00, you wrote:
>
> >PH
> >PH You think I can remember the syntax after all these years! It's
> >PH something like:
> >PH
> >PH WINDOW 2,"Woo!",,640,256
> >PH
> >PH I can't remember how you close 'em though :) I used AmigaBASIC
> >PH extensively when in the first few years when I first got an Amiga. Then
> >PH assembler, then E, ADA (don't ask!), C, REXX, ...
> >PH
> What I would call a proper Window command would look like :-
> Def Window 2,"Edit"20,20,640,256,&EF10,50,25,80,20,B
> The first six items are pretty obvious .
> Item seven is the gadget mask.
> Items eight to eleven are the initial values for the sliders
> Item twelve is the display type B for a bitmap T for a tile map.
Hmmm. That's nice and easy to remember eh? How are BASIC users supposed to
understand what agadget mask is?
Personally I prefer OpenWindowTags()
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