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- Subject: Re: Dialogs!
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 09:13:49 +1000
- From: Warwick Allison <warwick@cs.uq.oz.au>
- Precedence: bulk
-
- Timothy Miller wrote:
- >
- >We're saying to stop using dialogs.
- >
- >Ok... you just threw away part of the OS and told peope to replace it
- >with their own code (or a library).
-
- Not at all.
-
- 1. Dialogs-in-windows is very easy to implement.
- 2. form_do() was designed when TOS was single-tasking.
- 3. Everything that can be done with form_do() can be done
- in a window.
-
- and ultimately:
-
- 4. Isn't there a TSR that puts dialogs in windows anyway?
-
- GEM gives us objc_draw() for just this purpose.
-
-
- >And then to make standards on something as open-ended and unexplored as
- >amodal dialogs is not reasonable.
-
- Unexplored? People have been doing dialogs-in-windows since the very
- beginning.
-
- >Let's let a few developers
- >take a crack at [amodal dialogs]
-
- It's been done. It's done. Over and over.
-
-
- Also, dialogs-in-windows doesn't enforce amodal dialogs. It's perfectly easy
- to do modal dialogs: just set some sort of `modal' flag which causes all
- clicks on background windows (including topping clicks) to just cause the
- modal window to be topped.
-
- --
- Warwick
-