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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
-