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From: nsw@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Neil Weinstock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Clicking on Irregular Shapes
Message-ID: <1352@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Jun 89 20:39:04 GMT
References: <42700015@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <7110@cbmvax.UUCP> <7007@ardent.UUCP> <1205.AA1205@geo-works>
Reply-To: nsw@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Neil Weinstock)
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In article <1205.AA1205@geo-works> bryan@geo-works.UUCP (Bryan Ford) writes:
>In article <7007@ardent.UUCP>, rap@ez.ardent.com (Rob Peck) writes:
[ stuff about gadget masks in 1.2 Enhancer docs deleted ]
>Indeed.  I've tried it, and it works great.  (Rounded button gadgets look
>REALLY nice when done this way.) Unfortunately, I've seen very few programs
>that use it.  Pity, since it makes things look very nice, and it's not very
>hard at all.

Indeed.  Maybe it's purely a matter of aesthetics, but I find rounded button
gadgets to be darn near infinitely nicer than square gadgets, and one of the
things that makes M*c screens look better than analogous Amiga or Atari
screens.  True, square buttons can be made very nice, as in MandelVroom

Round those gadget boxes!

>In the 1.2 Enhancer manual, a description of this feature is on page 60,
>and a partial example is on page 76.  This is the only place I can find
>that describes it very well.

One would presume that the new RKM's would include such a description as well?

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