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From: mab@druwy.ATT.COM (Alan Bland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: 2.0 Intuition Features
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Date: 25 Sep 90 02:01:45 GMT
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I'm planning a programming project and the timeframe looks right to develop
it specifically for 2.0, and use the new 2.0 user interface support.  Since
I don't have 2.0 yet, I'd like to know what new capabilities have been
introduced in the 2.0 Intuition toolkit.  I don't care much about differences
at the programming level, just what the end-user sees.

Specifically, I'd like to know:

1. Does 2.0 support multiple-levels of sub-menus, instead of the single
   level of sub-menu supported by 1.3?

2. Is there support for automatically making a multi-column menu if there
   are too many menu items to fit on the screen?  This is particularly
   important for programs that run in several different screen resolutions.
   This will also be important if only one level of sub-menu is supported.

3. Is there support for Open Look-style "pinned" menus?

4. Is there finally a standard file requester?

5. Are proportional fonts supported everywhere (i.e. in text gadgets)?

6. Is there better support for super bitmap windows?  Trying to program the
   prop gadgets in 1.3 is so cumbersome that many programs don't take advantage
   of scrollable windows.  I don't want to plan to use scrollable windows if
   the programming interface is no better than 1.3.

I'm sure there are plenty of other similar questions I should ask.  If you
know of other new user interface goodies along these lines, I'd appreciate
hearing about them.

Thanks!!
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