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From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: How to deselect a gadget
Message-ID: <4962@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 7 Oct 88 18:38:58 GMT
References: <3229@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <12623@oberon.USC.EDU>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <12623@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>In article <3229@pt.cs.cmu.edu> mjw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Witbrock) writes:
>|Thanks for all the replies: 
>|   The consensus is that the only way to safely have a program unselect a 
>|   gadget is to REMOVE the gadget, fiddle its bits, and ADD it again.
>|   This is not what I'd call neat. Maybe a general ModifyGadget() in a later 
>|   release?
...
>1. RemoveGadget
>2. fiddle with gadgets imagery, SELECTED, text, etc...

 2.5 AddGadget or AddGList it back

>3. RefreshGadgets or RefreshGList
>
>Also (and this is documented twice in the 1.2 Enhancer docs) these games
>(especially the SLECTED toggle) can be played safely ONLY with gadget
>with imagery, not with simple boolean gadgets.  This is not a bug.
>this is just the way things are and have been (the 1.2 Enhancer docs
>is almost two years old).

	Yup.  There are some tricks that work to do this to non-image
gadgets, but they are not in any manner guaranteed or sanctioned, and may
well break in 1.4 (being dependant on Intuitions internal State Machine).

-- 
Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup