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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: ---Bug Report---
Message-ID: <1324@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Jun-86 16:35:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: amiga.1324
Posted: Fri Jun 20 16:35:40 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Jun-86 04:07:15 EDT
References: <675@Navajo.ARPA>
Reply-To: jimm@homer.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc., 983 University Ave #D, Los Gatos CA 95030
Lines: 31
Keywords: Backdrop, custom screen, screen gadgets, string gadgets

In article <675@Navajo.ARPA> rokicki@Navajo.ARPA (Tomas Rokicki) writes:
>I just got back on the net (I was in Texas for ten days) so I could
>post this . . .
>
>Scenerio:  I have a custom 640x400 one-bit-deep screen, with a full
>640x400 backdrop window with no borders.  I have attached several
>gadgets to the screen (Boolean and string gadgets) . . . 
>
>The problem:  ... [description]
>
>This is driving me up a wall; any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
>I could put the gadgets in the backdrop window; the problem with this is
>I then have to implement the screen dragging and depth arrangement myself.

I'm sorry, but you cannot have application gadgets attached to screens.
I realize that there are good reasons to want to do so, and one can imagine
schemes which would support it.  Future editions of the documentation will
make this limitation clear.

Using backdrop windows is your best bet.  Some programs exhibit a "pause" mode
where the backdrop window (which normally covers the screen bar) will shrink
to expose the screenbar and system gadgets, so the user can drag/arrange
the screen.

Doing your own depth gadgets is trivial.  Doing a screen dragger is easy, 
but it will not behave identical to the intuition operation, since
applications can not today limit the mouse pointer travel.

I hope you find a creative solution.

					jimm