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- Subject: Re: Dialog Box Proposal Part 1
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 94 19:35:20 +0100
- From: Craig.Graham@newcastle.ac.uk
- 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.
- >
-
- You could, however, include a TIMER event in your event_multi()
- call, and only check the objects every so often......not quite
- busy waiting, but still not as groovy as it could be. A shame GEM
- only provides two rectangle events - a rectangle list for event_multi()
- would solve this problem (but then you really have to code dialogs in
- windows into the GEM AES so it knows which rectangle is on top).
-
- > >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?
- >
-
- I would like to comment here that I think the author of LTMF-2 is being
- a little bullish at the moment, considering that he has yet to release the
- thing, and also in light of Warwick's excellent track record already (the atari
- GEM nethack port, the GEM++ C++ GUI library (wonderful, if you have a big enough
- machine to use GNU C++ on), and others.
-
- > 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.
- >
-
- I personally never use form_button or form_keybd at all........you can
- get along quite easily without them - check out the fully non-modal GUI
- in CLA for an example of this.
-
- > I comment upon proposals, not proposers; software solutions, not authors.
- >
-
- Take the argument to private email until things cool off, I have no wish to
- have a mailbox full.
-
- Craig Graham.
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