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In article <63842@cup.portal.com> Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON) writes:
>Toolmaker is shipping(at least my copy arrived a few days ago). It
>is powerful tool for building 2.0 compatible interfaces. I did read
>the manual supplied, but only after creating a simple interface with
>all sorts of gadgets. The use is intuitive and easy to learn. I do
>wish there were more information on the 2.0 features(gadgets in particular)
>but the manual does refer you to the RKM books....
>
>While it is powerful, I did have a couple of minor nits... I created
>two windows and found that when I decided I wanted one window, I could
>not copy the gadgets from one to the other.... I had to re-create them.
>The other "nit" was that if I wanted a gadget to be used to select another
>window, I had to do that "manually", the code generated did not automatically
>allow me to link up windows. The code for it was all generated, I just
>did not have a way to say that selecting this gadget opens that window.
>all in all, a very good tool. I know it will improve my user interfaces.
I received my copy the other day as well, seems like a pretty decent program sofar. I like the events loop code generation that it performs. Looks like a good tool for demos of a user interface as its being built.
My only "nit-pick" with the program so far is its inability to draw bevel-boxes and an easy method of drawing text into a window. (Similar features are found in GadToolsBox, and came in very handy!).
