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Subject: Re: Dialog Box Proposal Part 1
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 1994 16:18:15 +1000
From: Warwick Allison <warwick@cs.uq.oz.au>
Precedence: bulk
[Ken Hollis] wrote:
>Warwick, what's so hard about [changing cursor in EDITABLE]? I did this
>in WinLIB PRO, and you saw that. Even a *TWIT* could do this!
Reiterating, the naive solution busy waits, and is thus unacceptable.
>Don't talk about a program unless you've seen it in action. LTMF-2 is
>nothing compared to its previous version. Everyone KNOWS that you can
>use the form_button and form_keybd routines in windows easily. Why
>are you even bringing up this?
form_button and form_keybd do not clip to the window rectangles, and are
therefore only of use if the window is topped - a progressively less
popular paradigm as multitasking and true non-modality increases. For
example, in GEM++, I make an effort to call form_* functions whenever
possible, but little can be done with them in non-modal (where `mode'
also refers to the `is on top' mode) dialogs-in-windows.
>[personal attacks deleted]
I comment upon proposals, not proposers; software solutions, not authors.
When I, or anyone, says something, consider first that we must have had
a reason before responding with `Everyone KNOWS... Why even bringing
this up'. I don't write for no reason.
Changing the cursor in EDITABLE objects in expensive, either in PRODUCING
a good, efficient implementation or in USING a simple, inefficient one.
form_button and form_keybd are not GEM's Gift To Programmers.
--
Warwick