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- Date: Sat, 30 Jul 94 18:25 CDT
- From: ekl@sdf.lonestar.org (Evan K. Langlois)
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- Subject: Digest
- Precedence: bulk
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- ]Try HSMODEM. It works well under MTOS and MagiC.
-
- Huh? How will that help? The whole problem is that GEM is too slow...
- it has nothing to do with baud rates.
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- Gem will run more often if you take less time reasding the modem.
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- I had it working where the buttons would 'press' when you clicked on, but
- due to the way the amodality works, I get button-down events, not
- button-up events, so I would some times end up with a button staying
- selected even after I'd let up. So the gagets WORK, but they do not show
- anything (other than moving the slider properly, etc.).
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- If its for foreground windows and you aren't messing with WM_TOP
- messages, then look at my code again. You get button up and down events.
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- Yes, EVERYONE PLEASE DIGEST YOUR MAIL.
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- Why? Lots of small messages are easier to read than one long one, and
- its the same number of bytes.
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- Selection of words in editable objects is not simple to implement - so I
- suspect very few apps will and therefore cannot be part of the standard. At
- least not at this stage.
- --Ofir
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- The "standard" is not to force anything at all, just to provide a standard
- means of supporting new features. So, EVERYTHING must be in the standard.
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- What page is this on? I'd like to staple a copy of Even's message
- to that page so that I don't forget and make a silly mistake.
- --Michel Forget
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- It's not in the old version at all. Just the new one. Evan <not spelling
- eh?> can repost the code if you like (without all the annoying comments
- if you like).
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- C:\system\defaults\...
- defaults # general file read on app start up
- file1 # AND this is read when 'file1' runs
- file2 # ditto for file2 ...
-
- At which point, writing individual app defaults files becomes easier as well.
- You don't mess with the defaults file, but you're allowed to change your own.
- Of course, the file format in both should be the same. I think X actually
- has different file formats for the individual files, they are effectively
- specified as having no <application> (first) field, and the name of the file
- is prepended to all the entries. I can't actually see the point of this.
- One other thing - someone said the file ought to be case sensitive. Why ?
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- Agreed .. I like this structure and see no reason to make things case
- sensitive, other than filenames!! Make them lower case for FAT,
- and just as they are listed for Minix.
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- Wouldn't it be easier to have it insensitive ? You can then still use lc
- for entries, but you don't need separate entries for Y,y,True,TRUE etc.
- --Simon Gornall
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- Agreed.
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