Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!gtss!chas
From: chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: String gadgets
Message-ID: <240@gtss.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 88 00:27:36 GMT
References: <239@gtss.UUCP> <2035@amiga.UUCP>
Reply-To: chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland)
Organization: Georgia Tech School of Physics
Lines: 38
Keywords: string gadget intuition de-selection

In article <2035@amiga.UUCP> jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes:

)In article <239@gtss.UUCP> chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland) writes:
))String gadgets are de-selected by pressing return or clicking the mouse
))elsewhere.  We can tell the system knows in both cases that the gadget
))is de-selected because the cursor in it disappears.  If my string gadget
))has RELVERIFY set I get a GADGETUP event when I deactivate the sucker by
))pressing return, but not when I click the mouse elsewhere.

).... Poll that SELECTED flag (on INTUITICKS, for example).

This was what I had in mind to do if no happier answer came in.  Its really
not so bad since I can set GADGIMMEDIATE on the string gadgets I'm worried
about and thus detect when one has been selected and therefore only
monitor INTUITICKS while one of the string gadgets I care about is active,
thereby reducing polling to a minimum.

)All I can do is fix 'em.  Harriet Tolly's articles in Amazing Computing

Thanks for the reference to Tolly.

))-Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.-
)In this case, I don't think so.  You might have just sold your Amiga.

Too many of those originally responsible for developing the Amiga have
responded in more or less those words to that line in my .signature, while
I had intended it only as a general metaphysical remark.  That does it!
I'm changing my .signature to something more appropriate to the state
of documentation everywhere.
			--------
"Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish
and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer
if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and
and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and
and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?"
-- 
Charles Cleveland    Georgia Tech School of Physics    Atlanta, GA 30332
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