Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!alzabo!omx!SteveX
From: SteveX@omx.UUCP (Steve Tibbett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: GadTools functionality
Message-ID: <SteveX.3302@omx.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 91 14:51:19 GMT
References: <91023.105132GHGAQA4@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Organization: Artech Digital Entertainments Inc.
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In article <91023.105132GHGAQA4@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> GHGAQA4@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Tyberghein Jorrit) writes:
>  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.

Gadtools as it is is their first shot at it, and it would be easy for it
to grow more types in the future.

You could even use the BOOPSI custom gadget interface to create the
gadgets you're talkin about, I believe...

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