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- Subject: Re: Dialogs!
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 16:31:47 +1000
- From: Warwick Allison <warwick@cs.uq.oz.au>
- Precedence: bulk
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- Julian Reschke wrote:
-
- >> Not at all.
- >>
- >> 1. Dialogs-in-windows is very easy to implement.
- >> 2. form_do() was designed when TOS was single-tasking.
- >> 3. Everything that can be done with form_do() can be done
- >> in a window.
- >
- >Really? What about objc_edit() which can't clip to a rectangle list?
-
- For modal dialogs, this is not an issue: as soon as the window is non-top,
- you just don't allow anything.
-
- Sorry, I meant *modal* dialogs-in-windows above. The issue is whether it
- is too much effort to do modal dialogs rather than form_do() dialogs, and
- I really cannot see the problem. Sure, if you want to provide more than
- just form_do()+access to other applications, there is more to take into
- account (ie. amodal dialogs).
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- Warwick
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