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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: GadTools functionality
Message-ID: <6347@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 91 19:50:35 GMT
References: <91023.105132GHGAQA4@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> <SteveX.3302@omx.UUCP>
Organization: I and I Computing, Palo Alto, CA
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In article <SteveX.3302@omx.UUCP> SteveX@omx.UUCP (Steve Tibbett) writes:
)>  I'm just curious but why are the number of composite gadgets
)>in the GadTools library so few ?
)>Some examples :
)>  - Edit gadget :
)>  - Multiple line string gadgets.
)>  - Bitmap edit gadget 
)>  - Multiple column lists.
)>  - Popup menu gadgets.

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

Latest DevCon disks include my examples of boopsi composite (group)
gadget classes, and how to implement one or more public classes of
gadgets (or whatever) as an exec library.

Popup menu gadgets, however, will require some semaphore voodoo work
inside Intuition before they can be implemented as boopsi classes.

	jimm

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