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From: mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: GadTools functionality
Message-ID: <MWM.91Jan23105444@raven.pa.dec.com>
Date: 23 Jan 91 16:54:44 GMT
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In-Reply-To: GHGAQA4@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be's message of 23 Jan 91 10:50:32 GMT

In article <91023.105132GHGAQA4@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> GHGAQA4@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Tyberghein Jorrit) writes:
   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 :

I have a similar complaint about gadtools - the gadgets are about
three times as hard to build as gadgets in the Motif ToolKit. For
example, a simple pushbutton from Gadtools requires specifying
position and size (among other things). Motif requires specifing only
the name and the containing object. When I asked the author of
gadtools about this, his replies indicated that he thought things
ought to be this way. That gadtools are insufficient for building
requesters didn't bother him either.

	<mike


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