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From: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: GadTools functionality
Message-ID: <18011@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 24 Jan 91 17:31:17 GMT
References: <91023.105132GHGAQA4@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Reply-To: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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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 ?

GadTools provides around a dozen of the most commonly-needed classes
of gadget in an easy-to-use way.

>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 :

XTK is more than 3 times as big, I would think :-)

>  - Edit gadget, Multiple line string gadgets, Bitmap edit gadget,
>    Multiple column lists, Popup menu gadgets.

All good ideas, and all possible for a future version.  Note also
that Intuition has new features that make it much easier to add
this type of functionality, either through GadTools or separately.

We tried to add gadget types in order of importance, where importance
consists of several factors, including:

1 - number of applications that can benefit
2 - difficulty to application of doing it itself
3 - ROM space required to implement the class in GadTools

>Maybe for the next AmigaDOS release ?

It's quite premature to be dreaming publicly about the next release,
however more classes are certainly a good idea.

>                         Jorrit Tyberghein

     Peter
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