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- From: jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Jolyon Ralph")
- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
- Message-ID: <DoM8qy.CB5@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Organization: Compulink Information eXchange
- References: <4ipcc6$e53@infa.central.susx.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:47:21 GMT
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-
- > yum yum! gimme! ;-) got any more details? :)
-
- Just a few bits of info :-) It's totally customisable, down to each
- window. Your window can have whatever gadgets it wants (including close
- gadgets, depth gadgets, scroll bar, etc) wherever it wants on the window!
- (You could, if you were mad enough, have left handed windows with the
- closed gadets on the right hand side!)
-
- Title bars can use any font, so less important windows in your app can
- have tiny 6-point font title bars with tiny gadgets, you can even have
- multi-line text title bars!
-
- It's fully object-oriented, so linking gadgets is simply a matter of
- giving two different gadgets the same ID number. A background task
- controls rendering and window update, so however busy your application
- is, the program will respond immediately to mouse clicks and window
- resizes, etc.
-
- Because of the OO layout, you can have gadgets inside gadgets, for
- example the value of a slider displayed inside the slider knob. You can
- even have another slider inside the slider knob!
-
- Being worked on at the moment are pop-up listview gadgets. With our cycle
- gadgets, you'll be able to pop-up the list view of all the entries. If
- you want to, you can then detatch the listview, drag it to somewhere else
- on the screen and 'pin' it down to keep the listview permanently open as
- another window (handy for options you want to reference a lot).
-
- It does allow for different 'gadget' designs, like MUI does, we have two
- or three different sets at the moment, although I tend to use the
- Gadtools-a-like ones by choice... And it doesn't insist you run
- MagicWorkbench either! Colour handling is dealt with by the library
- itself, so however strange your palette your requesters will always
- choose sensible colours.
-
- And it's very small and fast. It uses up around 120k when in use
- (including all the classes, etc.).
-
- The main library is only 40Kb. :-)
-
- Jolyon
-
- ps. If anyone at Amiga Technologies wants to see this, just ask! MUI
- doesn't have to be the future....
-