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- From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: More GADTOOLS questions...
- Message-ID: <mbs.0xis@adastra.cvl.va.us>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 22:36:42 GMT
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- X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (beta) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
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- In article <1992Sep2.125721.20386@sparky.imd.sterling.com> chris@.IMD.Sterling.COM (Chris Olson) writes:
- > 1) Is there anyway to get the current status of a cycle gadget
- > from gadtools? (Like getting the string from a string gadget)
- >
- > 2) How about list, check boxs and mutual excludes?
-
- Nope. Not "legally". Although there are some pretty decent hacks on 2.04
- you can use, but they aren't "legal" (hint: a gadget is a gadget is a....).
-
- > 3) Is there some good example code that I can read? So far my
- > program seems to be working out just fine, but I'd like too
- > do things the right way...
-
- > 4) I remember reading a discussion on how to simulate a requester
- > a while back. Anybody remember what the consensus was?
-
- Take a look at requesters.c of GRn-1.16e-src.lha -- the code is pretty
- clean, I think.
-
- V37 of gadtools.library has some weirdnesses when GT messages get queued up.
- It tends to cause the machine to lock up. GRn opens a 1x1 requester whenever
- it is "busy", and uses windows to simulate requesters.
-
- The problem with real requesters is that GT's aren't locked out, unless they
- are explicitly disabled (not a chance you'd do that for speed purposes if you
- have more than one). So, if the user goes clicking away around the screen,
- you've got a hung machine....(it is quite possible that Myke or I did something
- wrong in GRn -- but we don't think so, and no one has pointed it out to us).
- --
- // Michael B. Smith
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