Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!aristotle!pjs From: pjs@aristotle.JPL.NASA.gov (Peter Scott) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Wish list for R5 Message-ID: <1990Aug14.174606.1137@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: 14 Aug 90 17:46:06 GMT References: <9008130225.AA21698@shamash.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> Sender: news@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Usenet) Reply-To: pjs@aristotle.jpl.nasa.gov Followup-To: comp.windows.x Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA/Caltech Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: aristotle.jpl.nasa.gov In article , rjc@uk.ac.ed.cstr (Richard Caley) writes: > Thirdly, as a piece of pure fantasy, it would be wonderful if some way > could be found of allowing resources to specify extra buttons and menu > items as well as changing the labels and effects of ones which exist. > For instance I might wish to move an action from being on a menu > behind a button to being on a button of its own. Always assuming that > there is not some way to do this already which has escaped my > notice... If an application has been coded using Dave Smyth's Widget Creation Library, it is often possible to achieve exactly this by changing the resource file alone. Probably not as easily as the method you have in mind, tho'... -- This is news. This is your | Peter Scott, NASA/JPL/Caltech brain on news. Any questions? | (pjs@aristotle.jpl.nasa.gov)