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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Menues in RISCOSlib
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.071622.12521@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 07:16:22 GMT
- Sender: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
- References: <1992Jul26.103203.28206@rdg.dec.com>
- Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland
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- goodwin@edieng.enet.dec.com (Pete Goodwin) writes:
- >Consequently, I use menues sparingly in C applications. If only Acorn would fix
- >them. However, since I've never seen Acorn respond to problems correctly (as in
- >release fixes for a reasonable charge) I don't expect this situation will
- >change for a LONG time. A shame really, the C package has some very strong
- >points, and seems to be let down by this kind of thing.
-
- Ah... menus work just fine, so long as you use the perfectly good OS SWI
- interface to them (Wimp_CreateMenu et. al). It is merely RISC OS Lib's
- interface to the SWIs which stinks horribly!
- Don't stop using menus just because RISC OS Lib is awful - stop using
- RISC OS Lib instead...
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