Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!agate!ucbvax!THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM!nsb From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Issues in dialogue box creation. Message-ID: Date: 19 Oct 90 13:14:01 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 21 Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 19-Oct-90 Issues in dialogue box crea.. Bill Cattey@athena.mit.e (1708) > 2. Rewrite Andrew dialogue boxes to use im_CreateTransient. > My inclination is to throw away and rewrite the existing dialogue box > code. I don't think I could quickly enough come to an understanding of > the hair of the existing dialogue boxes. As I understand it, these > dialogue boxes are of extremely limited functionality and should be > easily replacable with new code. Everyone has been saying what a hairy > crock the code is anyway. As the person who translated the dialog box code from bx to be2, I have to agree. Nuke it till it glows. > I believe the only real problem would come from the wm side of the > fence. Is it possible for wm to create transient overlapping windows? > If not, this could end up as a bad, user-visible change to the > interface, and I don't want that. Nuke wm till it glows, too.