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From: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Gadget Mutual-Exclude
Message-ID: <15546@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 Nov 90 16:18:07 GMT
References: <1990Oct30.071911.5122@iesd.auc.dk> <1990Oct31.115852.3209@csc.anu.oz.au> <868@public.BTR.COM>
Reply-To: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <868@public.BTR.COM> eeh@public.BTR.COM (Eduardo E. Horvath  eeh@btr.com) writes:
>
>	So does a new version of the OS really support mutual-exclude gadgets?
>My RKMv1.1 says about the MutualExclude field: "Currently, Intuition ignores
>this field."  Has this changed?

Intuition still ignores this field, upto and including 2.0.

The Gadget Toolkit in the 2.0 Kickstart provides easy mutual exclusion.

2.0 Intuition has object-oriented custom gadgets, which can readily
support mutual exclusion much better than the MutualExclude field
could ever have.


>Eduardo Horvath				eeh@btr.com

     Peter
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