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From: TEETER@HUMBER.BITNET (Doug Teeter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Screen Gadgets
Message-ID: <8909081212.AA08986@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: 8 Sep 89 11:57:55 GMT
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 "eric.a.duesing" <ead@cbnewsd.att.com> writes:

> HELP!!!    I am working on a proportional gadget and I am trying
> to get it to work on a custom screen.  This gadget uses an Image
> structure and works fine on a window in this custom screen, however,
> it does NOT work (heck, it doesn't even appear)  when I attach it
> to the screen (and before you ask, I did set the SCRGADGET flag in
> the GadgetType field of the Gadget structure).

 As far as I know there is no support for gadgets on screens in the
current version of OS. (other than system gadgets that is)

> Is there something REAL obvious I am overlooking? (I don't
> have the code with me so I can't post it.)
>
> Does anyone have a code segment of a screen gadget they could post?

 Because there is no IDCMP for Screens,  attaching your gadget to one
would serve no purpose as you would have no means of receiving event
messages when the user did something with it.

 Can anyone tell us if user Screen gadgets will be supported in 1.4?

....Teeter