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- From: ricci@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mark Ricci - CATS)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: ToolMaker from CATS
- Message-ID: <34200@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 14:59:03 GMT
- References: <1B776606WK@tron.gun.de> <63842@cup.portal.com>
- Reply-To: ricci@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mark Ricci - CATS)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- 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....
-
- Yes, that was done by design. We wanted to document Toolmaker, not the system.
- I would like to have included a lot more about using 2.0, but it would have
- gotten us away from the matter at hand, Toolmaker. Still, though, if you
- find that the combination of the RKMs and the Toolmaker is not enough, we
- might be able to squeeze a little more into the documentation for the next
- version of Toolmaker.
-
- >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 think the nits you listed will be addressed in the next version of Toolmaker,
- along with other new features.
-
-
- Mark
-