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From: gourdol@imag.imag.fr (Gourdol Arnaud)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Progress indicator/thermometers
Message-ID: <22309@imag.imag.fr>
Date: 6 Jun 91 21:55:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: imag.22309
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In article <5232@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> sho@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
>Hear, hear.  It seems to me that all Apple had to do was to include a 
>new CDEF for us to use.  It would save the trouble of creating your
>own UserItem and trying desperately to get the same shape and colors...

Hmmm, no it's a little more than just a CDEF. Of course, a CDEF
would be nice (altough other nice CDEFs would be those 
little up/down arrow used in the color picker to change the 
amount of red/green/blue or to change the month/day/year in 
the general control panel (worst, I'm sure that those CDEFs 
do exist, but we just can't use it because they are not 
documented, arghhh)).

So I want more than a CDEF, I also want something that does 
make the semi-modal dialog, put the Stop or Cancel button
at the right place, displays and truncate the text if 
needed at the right place, works with arabic or 
japanes systems as well and displays only if a 
given amount of time elapses. And BTW, I would also 
like it to display the candy stripes if I can't tell 
how long my work will take. So that's definitely 
more than a CDEF. I'd rather see like some kind of 
GetFile, you see. Actually, a whole trap is not 
necessary. A selector in a PACK would be enough :-)

Arno.

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