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Subject: I`m new here!

Hello, I`ve just joined this mailing list and I`m a little out of touch with
everything that`s going on. I got the postings on Aminet for the old lists,
but since then... :)

Anyway, I`m wondering about a couple of things:

1: E has some darn useful functions missing...
   Has anyone managed to use GT_SetGadgetAttrs in gadtools? Cuz it AIN`T THERE!
   And ParsePatternNoCase() in DOS? SAME AGAIN! (bitch when writing a file
   finder... like I WAS... :)
   Not to mention DoMethod() in amiga.lib... I tried disassembling this but
   I don`t know too much about how the C stubs work, so I got lost... :(
   Anyway, any help in getting around these problems would be appreciated...
2: I have had some joy with MUI, I got a basic window with some text up
   and running, but nothing else... no DoMethod()! Gah!
   Anyway, if anyone wants any help with gadtools or similar stuff please
   mail me direct, as I have quite a bit of expereince with such things.
   And I managed to get a font-sensitive new-look BlackOnWhite(tm) menu-ed
   Scalable-MXbutton window running... WITHOUT using GadToolsBox!
   Any use to anyone?

Finally, has anyone got any tips for reading tooltypes? My efforts crash the
system, but I don`t have the source at hand :(

And this month`s Amiga Shopper has a 2-page spread on E! Plus the address
for this mailing list... Prepared to be swamped by requests asking how to
access the CLI to compile E code! :) "What is ED?" ... "Hello World" in E...

UWP
From donews!crash!rcbins.mu.wvnet.edu!AMONROE Fri, 4 Feb 94 01:49:49 PST
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From: "R. Alan Monroe"  <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: fonts

>The problem was my textfont structure it seems.
>Originally I had something like (Don't take this literally, it is just
>out of my head)
>myfont := ['times.font',18,0,1]
>or something similar.  This didn't work for some reason.
>By unscrupulously copying that other guy's source :^) I changed to
>something along the lines of
>myfont.name := 'times.font'
>myfont.ysize := 18
>etc. etc.
>that's what made it work.

Well i played around with it some more and discovered that my original
way was ok, if I would just put ':textattr', after the closing ']'
Learn something new every day...

Have fun
Alan
From donews!crash!plucky.ike.safb.af.mil!bwills Fri, 4 Feb 94 01:50:16 PST
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~8> around the screen. The manual makes reference to the main window's IDCMP
~8> port as if somehow the two windows can share the same port. How is that done?

I suggest, Charles, that you take a gander at Dave Higginson's
mweg.e example, which can be obtained from aminet,
dev/e/AmigaE.BinArc.lha.  It's a very small and easy to read
demo of opening multiple windows, waiting on multiple ports,
and acting on the messages coming from Intuition...exactly
what you're looking for.  If anyone has not seen this source,
get it.  NOW.  It's one o' them valuable E gems, rare and
indispensible. :-)

-- Barry

P.S. - While I got your attention, remember waaaay back, I
expressed some interest about an article you wrote on E?  If
you still have the electronic version I'd really appreciate
it if you emailed it to me. =)