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From: crunch@well.UUCP (John Draper)
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Subject: Gadget Editor Status Report
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Date: Mon, 2-Jun-86 05:40:12 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  2 05:40:12 1986
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STATUS REPORT ON THE GADGET EDITOR
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   So Far, I have put in a Week of work on the Gadget Editor,  and now
am at the turning point where I have to decide to put it out commercially
or post it on the nets.   There are (of coarse) benifits to me for BOTH
routes.  I also feel that a few more days on it will make it "Usable"
although not ALL the functions are in.    It now provides a fairly
easy way to HACK on Intuition's gadgets.    It can save you a lot of
time fooling around with those nasty structure initializations.

   If I were to post the source on the Nets.   Would any one interested
in "cleaning it up" please do so,  and document the changes in the Source,
and re-posting it.  Sorta like Emacs and Mandlebrot.  I would like to make
this an "Official" Programmers Network Project.

   If you are interested in hacking on this,  Here are the features yet
to put in:

  *** Editing Images and linking them in
  *** Entering IntuiText and linking them properly.
  *** Saving and Getting Gadget "set" from disk

   I will plan one more "Hacking session" on it,  then document the 
glitches and how the gadget structures are manipulated.   Some of the
glitches are:   1.  If you just add a gadget, and it's selected,  you
leave a rectangle where it "Was",   No big deal,  just use the
"Sledghammer" Menu option: CLEAR SCREEN and REFRESHGADGETS,  to re-
generate them.    It then generates "Initialized Source code" which
can then be "Pasted" into your program with your editor.   I currently
am "kprintf'ing" all the IO through the serial port.    Where my main
editor is.   In each of the "Stubbed" menu-items,   I document what the
item is supposed to do.   I have files for each menu item.   Ie:
"utilmen.c" contains all the Utility menu functions.

   Please start thinking of other features you might want it to have.
and If you want to help put them in.   Several people have already
responded from an earlier posting.

   If you want to help,  Please post your reply to one of the following
Net addresses:

John Draper - Programmers Network
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