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From: nichiren@glyph.UUCP (Andy Heffernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Gadget Mutual Exclusion
Summary: Return of the Mutex
Message-ID: <199@glyph.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 89 20:53:28 GMT
References: <1299@psueea.UUCP>
Reply-To: nichiren@glyph.UUCP (Andy Heffernan)
Organization: Glyph UNIX, Kingston, NY
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In article <1299@psueea.UUCP> bartonr@psu-cs.cs.pdx.edu (=> robart <=) writes:
->In article <16305@gryphon.COM> rickf@pnet02.cts.com (Rick Flower) writes:
->> I know that the old RKM's say that this field in the Gadget structure is
->>ignored, but according to the Workbench 1.3 Assembly Include headers, it makes
->>it sound as if this feature is now working in 1.3!  I'm basically asking if
->>this is the case, and if so, how the heck can I get it to work??
->
->  Here's what the 1.3 Includes & Autodocs says about gadget mutual exclusion:
->    "Intuition does the visual unselecting (with checkmarks) and leaves it up
->    to the program to unselect internally"
->  I'm not quite sure what they mean by checkmarking a gadget.  I thought
->checkmarks were only for menu items.

This is an old RJ comment from the Gadget definition in intuition.h and,
as it refers to a feature never implemented, it is not accurate. 

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