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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Things to fix. To: Amiga.
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Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 15:17:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  1 15:17:36 1987
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In article <833@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Gedgets have some problems.
>
>	1) When you change your default font, gadgets are still rendered in
>Topaz. Perhaps you should provide some intuition-blessed method for changing
>the font.
>
>	2) The "highlight box" in gadgets is pretty ugly. How about just a
>single line?
>
>	3) It's hard to deselect gadgets that use the highlight box without
>occasionally getting part of the box left rendered.

These are all due to how gadgets with Intuitext are rendered. And it is
a problem but there are ways around it. One would think a simple boolean
gadget would consist of an Intuitext pointer and a pointer to a Border
structure. Unfortunately, Intuition can't figure out how to display these
for both highlighed (GADHCOMP) and non-highlighted situations. What you
can do (and this works rather well) is to take your intuitext structure
and border structure, and render them in to a little gadget sized bitmap.
Then take the bitmap and make it into an Image structure and use that
in your gadget. 

As for using Topaz, I have an application I wrote that puts up several
boolean text oriented gadgets. These are created using the method described
above and work as expected, however I went to great pains to pick up the
window's default font as the font for my 'buttons'. What this involved was
actually repositioning the gadgets in my window and requester depending
on how tall and or wide the letters were. (I abort if all the gadgets wont
fit on the screen). This can be a lot of work in the window setup and
not everyone is willing to put in the extra effort. Too many programs
look horrible when you put them in the 60 character font mode.

--Chuck McManis
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