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From: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: multi-button CDEF, was Re: List Manager questions
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Date: 31 Jul 89 19:59:20 GMT
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In article <8173@hoptoad.uucp>, tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes:
> (And *not* because I am a negative, brooding figure, as some would
> suggest.  I write most of my messages on a portable computer while
> skipping through sunny, windblown fields of daisies, humming a merry
> tune and thinking good thoughts about my fellow travellers on spaceship
> earth.)

Many giggles. :-).

> So you have to have some way of storing multiple titles.

I've occassionally thought of different ways of doing this.  Unfortunately,
most of them involve reinventing parts of the dialog manager, but...
One thing that that I've considered would be to have, say, a 'CTL#' that
would contain a list of CNTL resources.  This way you could lay out the
items any way you wanted within the overall rectangle, and you could deal
with with titles and so on more easily.  Of course, you could shoot yourself
in the foot by having scrollbars in your radio button clusters, but, hey,
it's a Mac, right :-)?

Just my $.02,
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Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
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