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From: pmy@jeeves.acc.Virginia.EDU (Pete Yadlowsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Looking for a Browser object
Message-ID: <2247@hudson.acc.virginia.edu>
Date: 10 Nov 89 15:21:24 GMT
References: <14715332JEP@MSU> <2241@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> <1989Nov10.023803.13934@nueces.cactus.org>
Reply-To: pmy@jeeves.acc.Virginia.EDU (Pete Yadlowsky)
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In article <1989Nov10.023803.13934@nueces.cactus.org> chari@nueces.cactus.org (Chris Whatley) writes:

>Damn you people! I'm doing one too. Instead of using a browser object, I
>have implemented a scrolling matrix of button cells for various lists in
>need.

You might consider using the SelectionCell, which puts a right-arrow in
the cell if selecting it opens a sub-list. Otherwise, just text with no
arrow, making it look like an ordinary button cell.

>I plan to add nntp support later. I also use NN's nnmaster to maintain an
>index of all the current news so there is no waiting. Are y'all doing it
>totally OO or are you just grafting the interface onto rn?

Totally OO; what I'm doing has nothing to do with rn specifically, and
what I really needed was a general purpose Browser view to take care
uh them ain't-got-no-browser blues. A rn interface sure sounds like a
good application for a browser, though.

>Maybe we should
>collaborate? I have a number of useful objects already implemented
>which do news-type things.

Yes? Yes? Such as?


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