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From: higgin@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga,net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: BYTE issue of September 86 focuses on the 68000
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Date: Thu, 25-Sep-86 11:40:47 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 25 11:40:47 1986
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In article <182@apple.UUCP> lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
>In article <8609230545.AA12713@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>>Ok, in this answer I'm assuming you're talking about little sliding-box
>>gadgets that allows you to specify what part of a much larger window or
>>document is to be displayed in the on-screen window.
>>
>>Implimentation on the amiga is as follows:
>
>What about the scroll and paging arrows?  On the Mac, a scroll bar consists
>of 5 parts: up/down arrows (scroll by a small amt), up/down pagers (scroll
>by screenful), and scroll box (random access scrolling).  Proportional
>gadgets sound like just the last of these.
>

Correct.

>From a quick scan of the Intuition manual it seemed that you have to add 4
>button-type gadgets to implement the arrows and pagers.  Is that right, and
>does the system automatically move and resize all 5 gadgets?  (If you
>resize the window, you want the proportional gadget to grow and shrink, and
>the 4 button gadgets to remain adjacent to it.)

You wouldn't need to resize non-proportional gadgets (arrows), but yes,
Intuition does reposition them (if programmed as position dependent relative
to the appropriate window boarders), and will automatically size the
proportional gadget.

>>	You weren't explicit enough for me to come up with a better example.
>
>Sorry.  I was talking about a small status area within a window.  For
>example, the bottom edge of a window looks like:
>
>	| status area |<=======scroll bar ======>|
>
>In other words, the horizontal scroll bar does not extend to the left edge
>of the window, leaving room for status information without using up too much
>of the window.  My question was whether this case was automatically handled
>by the Amiga software.
>

Yes, no problem - proportional gadget position over to the right, and a
program can render right into the windows borders for status info.

>Thanks for the informative reply.

I hope it helped.

>
>-- 
>Larry Rosenstein
>
>Object Specialist
>Apple Computer
>
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Paul Higginbottom

Disclaimer: I do not work for Commodore, and my opinions are my own.