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From: Charles McCreary <CHASMC@grove.iup.edu>
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Subject: Requesters (Requestors?)
Hello All!
This question is not really E specific and it probably is an Amiga
programmer FAQ but since there are so many bright people out there, I
thought this would be a great place to start...:-)
My confusion comes from reading the Libraries manual (3rd ed.) as concerns
requesters. It seems if you want to open one, you have three possibilities:
1. Fill out a requester structure/record/object-list. Good for pre-version
36 operating system. I do not want to do this because you cannot use
gadtools gadgets in such a requester.
2. Use the Easy request or auto-request function. This is good for simple
yes-no type requesters which have perhaps a couple of lines of explanation
but are really quite limited.
3. Here is where I'm not too sure what's going on: open a sub-window which
might be more along the lines of what I want to do. This sub-window could
have many gadgets in it, use gadtools and allow the user to move it
around the screen. The manual makes reference to the main window's IDCMP
port as if somehow the two windows can share the same port. How is that done?
I have also seen programs such as excellence! the word-processor where
requesters which open do not block input to the main window but rather
function as if they were separate programs (threads?) Are these requesters
actually mini-windows with their own IDCMP port? How could you handle
something like that in your program?
I know that an add-on library like Reqtools would do the job quite well but
before going that route, I'd like to try the system-provided routines. Any
help is of course greatly appreciated. :-)
--Charles McCreary
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From: bob.monaghan@synapse.org (Bob Monaghan)
To: amigae@bkhouse.cts.com
Subject: XPK library
Has anybody successfully used the XPK libraries with E?
If so, I'd *really* like to see an example on how to use it.
I've just converted the .i file to an .m, so I shouldn't need modules.
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From: bob.monaghan@synapse.org (Bob Monaghan)
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Subject: iffparse.library
I've just started using the iffparse.library.
and I'm getting a problem when I parse an IFF file.
ParseIFF() returns an error (-5). Anyone encounter this problem?
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