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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Screen Gadgets
Message-ID: <4531@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 89 22:41:20 GMT
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Reply-To: jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA
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) 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)

Correct.  The fancy version of the Intuition Manual even says so, in my
own words (my only contribution to the manual).

) 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.

Basically so.

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

Dunno yet.  There is some generalized gadget communication in the works, 
and it might work out that you could stick on in a screen.  But maybe not:
I think it's worked out OK to require a window, often a borderless backdrop
window, for the gadgets.

There are some other problems, about who's active and all that.

	jimm
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