| From: | Alexander Niven-Jenkins |
| Date: | 23 Jul 2000 at 15:51:30 |
| Subject: | Re: EasyRequestArgs() |
Hiya rudolph-riedel@t-online.de,
On 23-Jul-00, you wrote:
>>> Well, rtpatch does it`s job, that`s not the problem, reqtools is.
>> I love reqtools :-)
> You haven`t seen the source. ;-)
Nope, all I know is that it works like a dream for me as a user :-)
>> *YOU PROGRAM USING THE STANDARD OS FUNCTIONS* this means
>> EasyRequestArgs() and ASL!
>> If the user want something different, then they will use a patch like I
>> use RTPatch :-)
> I didn`t meant to use anything else than OS functions but this
> is no excuse for bad layout.
It's the way the OS works, EasyRequestArgs() bungs the requester in to
top left corner. I suspect there is a reason for this and the one i'm
thinking about is the fact that the Amiga's GUI is active from startup, you
don't need to load it unlike some OS's and so it is perfectly possible to
get a requester appearing while only a DOS shell is open on startup with a
very small screen etc, it might be that at that point the relevant
libraries that enable you to get screen info aren't available, so the safest
place to open the requester is at 0,0.
> And when it comes for OS functions - why doesn`t have ASL lib neither
> a string-requester nor a color-requester?
Never needed these, but I thought ASL had a font requester. What does
the font preference program use?
Color has always been done manually though hasn't it, again look at
palette preference program.
Kind regards...
Alex
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