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From: gregg@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (gregg.g.wonderly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 1.4 Wish: Revamped sizing gadget
Message-ID: <3987@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 19 Oct 89 17:38:01 GMT
References: <2344@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
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From article <2344@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>, by coco@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (felix.a.lugo):
> 	A good idea would be to have a flag, lets say in Preferences,
> 	that selects which type of gadget you want to use in your
> 	windows.

I think the answer is to have all of the gadgets and screen/window
layouts in preferences.  Let me decide where I want the gadgets to be.
There could be certain rules like, if I have one scrolling gadget, it
has two arrows.  If I have one front/back gadget it is a toggle.

It is even possible to allow the user to design the gadget that
performs the particular operation.  It is possible to do that with the
shape of the pointer now.  Why not use that editing facility (or
IconEd) to create the graphic that seems most appropriate.  The contact
points could be relocatable as the pointer is now.  Surely the code
in place now is not so inflexible that it could not be generalized
to accept all of the parameters for actions of the gadgets as simple
rectangles located somewhere in the screen/window rectangle!

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