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From: nj@ndmath.UUCP (Narciso Jaramillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Enhanced gadgets -- how to handle them.
Message-ID: <288@ndmath.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 10:46:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: ndmath.288
Posted: Fri Sep 18 10:46:14 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Sep-87 03:17:14 EDT
References: <770@sugar.UUCP>
Organization: Math. Dept., Univ. of Notre Dame
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In article <770@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) says:
> 
> 	5) What other xgadgets do you think would be handy? A set
> 	   of mutually exclusive gadgets? A pop-up? An n-way
> 	   selector? An improved string gadget (multiline, for
> 	   example)?
> 

How about movable (i.e. Workbench-icon-like) gadgets?  I've been
toying with the idea of writing some for a program I've been
thinking about (I'm basically a novice to Amiga programming, unless
you count slow recursive-move reversi programs :-))...people have been
suggesting using BObs for this purpose.

I thought they already had mutually exclusive gadgets?...I guess not.
Assuming they don't have, is there any other way to do the following
sort of thing: hit one and "select" it, then hit another, selecting
the second and deselecting the first.  I guess that's mutual exclusion,
isn't it.  Or another thing: have a movable gadget and then an array of
boxes, each of which is a gadget, so the user can
  1) move the pointer over the movable icon,
  2) press down the button, causing the box around the icon to
     highlight in some way,
  3) drag the mouse, and as the mouse moves over different box gadgets,
     cause each of them to be selected (and the previous box deselected)
     in turn,
  4) release the button, causing the icon to center itself in the current
     box, leaving the box so selected highlighted.
Does that make sense?  (Not, I might add, that I think it would have any
practical application.  It would just look good.  :-))  There's probably
an obvious way of doing this I'm not thinking about...