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From: rj@amiga.UUCP (Robert J. Mical)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Need Help w/String Gadgets
Message-ID: <1285@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Jun-86 13:54:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: amiga.1285
Posted: Thu Jun 12 13:54:24 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Jun-86 03:42:51 EDT
References: <431@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Reply-To: rj@amiga.UUCP (Robert J. Mical)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc., 983 University Ave #D, Los Gatos CA 95030
Lines: 48
Keywords: String Gadgets, Requesters

In article <431@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU> hsgj@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Dan Green) writes:
>Another Amiga Question:
>   In my desperate attempt to create a way for a user to input a filename
>(from my C prog) I have discovered that string gadgets can be attached to
>Requester windows.  That, unfortunately, is my problem.
>  ... UNDOCUMENTED field in the Gadget struct that I didn't know what
>to do with.  It is called "SpecialInfo" and the RKM merely says,
>its (paraphrased) "a special data pointer required by String Gadgets".
>window had no close box or other way to kill it - clicking on the Pos or
>Neg gadgets did nothing except inverse video the gadgets.
>
>   According to my lousy Sybex "Amiga Programmers Handbook" *supposedly*
>no requester window will be generated until Request() is called.  Obviously
>that was wrong...
>
>My Question:  Can anyone tell me (a) how to use String Gadgets, (b) how
>to incorporate these gadgets into Requesters, and (c) whether anyone has
>JUST the Intuition Manual for sale...
>
>Dan Green    ARPA:    hsgj@vax2.ccs.cornell.edu

Your questions are good ones.  But the answers would be long, and
unnecessary.  All of the answers to your questions can be found in the
Intuition manual published jointly by Addison-Wesley and 
Commodore-Amiga.

You *must* read the Intuition manual.  I am surprised that you've gotten
as far as you have without it!  Requesters, string gadgets, SpecialInfo,
all this stuff is explained in great detail in the Intuition manual.

Accept no cheap substitutes.  Get the Addison-Wesley version of the
Intuition manual, which was written by me (the creator of Intuition)
and Susan Deyl, and proofed by Amiga people.  It will make your
life a lot easier, not just with Inutition but with the entire Amiga
System Kernel, because Intuition's relationship to the system on the
whole is well-described in this book.

Good luck!

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