Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!news.cs.indiana.edu!rutgers!njin!uupsi!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Using the Layers library to do non-Intuition windows Message-ID: <1991Apr22.103115.3443@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 22 Apr 91 10:31:15 GMT References: <1991Apr19.003233.16889@netcom.COM> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 17 In article <1991Apr19.003233.16889@netcom.COM> rodent@netcom.COM (Ben Discoe) writes: > I'm working on a custom screen and I'd like to manipulate several > "text windows" without using real Intuition windows. In fact, I am > trying to emulate the manner in which MSDOS applications allow > "windowing" on text-based screens. I think the Layers library is > ideal for doing this? Why are you doing this? If this is for a real program, please reconsider. The biggest advantage that the Mac has is that Apple sits down hard on developers that break with their look and feel (and sits down hard on competitors that don't. :-<). In any case, proghrams should work as hard as they can to stick to the general Amiga user interface. Why make things harder for yourself when all it'll do is hurt? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .