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- From: okrumnow@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Olaf Krumnow)
- Subject: Re: New Template format discussion document
- Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 15:58:25 GMT
- Message-ID: <okrumnow.726595105@mcshh.hanse.de>
- References: <930101200448@kernow.demon.co.uk> <4897@svin09.info.win.tue.nl> <1993Jan6.113946.4153@gate.esat.kuleuven.ac.be> <1993Jan7.203406.16154@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
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- jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA) writes:
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- >If you are really concerned about icon tags taking up a lot of sapce, then
- >I suggest that icon tags are either:
- > * 8 bytes of text, or
- > * 4 bytes of text/an integer.
-
- >It would be fine to use sequential numbers as tags, so long as once a number
- >is assigned to an icon, it is not renumbered by any change of position...
- >Yup... Note also, though, that using a 4-byte number, we can also use
- >numbers with weird 'values' such as:
-
- > Wimp_GetIconInfo(mainwindow, 'ICok',...)
-
- And together with the already mentioned Window and icon pre- and suffixes
- this should give enough possibilites to create an external tag for icons.
-
- >>Yes, it would. What about defining the menu format in the Glass file ?
-
- >Already a proposition put forward. This would define menu entries and
- >build menus from them. Each menu entry is tagged and contains some msgtransed
- >text (e.g. the 'quit' item might contain the text 'Quit'). The support code
- >will support extra stuff like ESG groups for tickable items, and proper
- >handling of stuff like shading icons (shade an item with a submenu link
- >and the submenu will still appear, only shaded, as in Acorn's Style Guide)
-
- >This will also allow users to edit the menu layout completely, i.e. move
- >'quit' into a submenu so that it's actually main -> go away -> die -> quit
- >and the main program will still quite happily quit when 'quit' is selected.
-
- And COPY items to other places, so they are available more than once, eg.
- a save entry could be placed in a deeply nested menu, to allow saving after
- a frequently used function.
-
- >A mechanism would also ve included for automatically handling hotkeys for
- >a menu item, so the user can change most of the key-bindings as well.
-
- That's a must in my eyes. I never found key-bindings i liked.
-
- Olaf.
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