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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