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From: pa1132@sdcc15.UUCP (pa1132)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: GEM programming
Summary: menus, windows, etc
Message-ID: <586@sdcc15.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 88 16:48:23 GMT
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Organization: University of California, San Diego
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Keywords:GEM


Here is some questions about GEM:

  1.  Why is the number of windows limited to 8?  Why did DRI design
  this way?  With a miminum of 512k memory for the ST, memory
  shouldn't be a problem.  Even on the earliest 128k Mac, there is
  no limit on number of windows you can have on the screen.  Is
  there any way to modify the AES so we can get rid of the memory
  limitation?

  2.  How to get the menus to appear on other parts of the screen
  instead of the top line of the screen?  I have seen some desk accs
  to have  menu bar under their window title bar.  How is that done?

  3.  How to get bottons, editable (spelling?) text fields and other
  objects, that used to appear in dialog boxes, to appear in a window?                                 
  4.  How to  modify the appearance of windows?  For example, in
  PageMaker for the Mac, icons are added to the border of windows to
  show the current page.  Is that kind of trick possible under GEM?

  PageMaker is a trademark.