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- From: spisser@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (reinhard spisser)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Recently released AmigaGuide package vs. c: IPrefs on A4000
- Message-ID: <1993Apr5.100025.20162@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>
- Date: 5 Apr 93 10:00:25 GMT
- References: <1993Mar31.064249.408@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> <1pf4a0INN3lo@mercury.kingston.ac.uk> <1993Apr2.161006.28392@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
- Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
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- rittle@supra.comm.mot.com (Loren James Rittle) writes:
-
- >In fact, it is odd, both versions have feature sets that the other
- >lacks. EG: amigaguide.library v39 that came with the A4000 lacks:
- >navigation menu strip,
- >shift-click to open document in other window,
- >double click on any word tries to locate a match in the XREF,
- >tab to move to next button,
- >shift-tab to move to last button,
- >new look scroll bar,
- >mark and select all menu items are ghosted
-
- Some of the features of V34 AG were stripped since V39 AG was written using
- GadTools (sigh), which does not allow certain operation on gadgets ecc.
-
- >The recently release amigaguide.library lacks:
- >multi-font support,
- >auto wrap,
- >new highlight styles
-
- >I sure I missed some other differences, but you get the idea. It appears
- >that two different paths of development have occured on amigaguide.library.
-
- The first released AG was the AG 34 version (only for developers). Then
- they developed AG39, stripping out some very nice features impossible to
- implement with gadgtools.
-
- IMHO, they decided to release to the public AG, so all users can have it.
- They will continue to develop only the V39 version.
-
- >One added nice 3.0 features (font support), the other added nice general
- >features (tab, shift-click, double click).
-
- >I would really like to see an update to the v39 amigaguide.library that
- >contains all the nice features in the package just released (v34?). There
- >are currently many reasons to want to run the v34 version on an A4000.
-
- I use the V34 amigaguide.library under 3.0. Multiview uses the amigaguide.datatype
- so you can`t replace it with the older version.