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Subject: Re: text marks & sliders
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 13:18:30 +1000
From: Warwick Allison <warwick@cs.uq.oz.au>
Precedence: bulk
Ofir Gal wrote:
>
>I use the 2 rect method in my popup and window menu library. The logic
>took a while to work out, but I could easily implement the changing mouse
>idea using a similar system. It's all in BASIC BTW.
Those were modal forms, correct? GEM++ allows the library user to do
arbitrary actions on entry/exit of an object in the `Hot' form. It simply
uses the code from Tim Oren's ProGem articles.
Extending this to work with dialogs in windows would work fine... I
just don't see the need to make such a large change in the GEM GUI.
It's not part of GEM. I could. And it would be interesting. But I
don't see that it should be part of the standard, mainly because I
cannot imagine everyone ELSE implementing it. I don't want to invest
time in implementing full rectangle tracking just so that all my
programs (and other GEM++ prgs) can look and feel different to everyone
else's. If you'd all like to make GEM++ the standard, then by all
means, make rectangle tracking part of the standard, throw in Mac-style
balloon help while your at it [it's trivial once you have rectangle
tracking], and I'll implement it. Not realistic.
--
Warwick