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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
-