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From: GHGAQA4@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Tyberghein Jorrit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: GadTools functionality
Message-ID: <91023.105132GHGAQA4@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Date: 23 Jan 91 10:50:32 GMT
Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
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Hi,

  I'm just curious but why are the number of composite gadgets
in the GadTools library so few ? I've programmed in XWindows
and the number of composite gadgets in the XWindow ToolKit is
(rough estimate) about 3 times as high. Some examples :
  - Edit gadget : a complete editing gadget for multiple lines
        including scrolling. This gadget in fact supports an
        easy view on a text.
  - Multiple line string gadgets.
  - Bitmap edit gadget : a complete drawing gadget including
        grid, enlargement and scrolling.
  - Multiple column lists.
  - Popup menu gadgets.

  and so one ...

I know that MS-Windows also has a lot of composite gadgets in
the toolkit.
Maybe for the next AmigaDOS release ?

                         Jorrit Tyberghein