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From: rick@tmiuv0.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Gadget help wanted
Message-ID: <23@tmiuv0.uucp>
Date: 2 Feb 90 16:49:49 GMT
References: <1039LK-KARI@FINTUVM>
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In article <1039LK-KARI@FINTUVM>, LK-KARI@FINTUVM.BITNET (Kari Sutela) writes:
> I'm having some problems with a small program I made while trying to learn
> proper gadget-programming. The problem is that the OnGadget(), OffGadget(),
> and the RemoveGadget() functions don't bevahe quite the way I expected them
> to do. The problems concern the rendering of the gadgets:
> 
>    1. If I OffGadget() a gadget and then later on OnGadget() it again, the
>    gadget will be rendered in the enabled state only if it is an image-gadget.
>    If the gadget only has some IntuiText linked to it, it can be selected
>    but it will stay ghosted all the time.

Yup. That's true. If you have a copy of the Intuition manual, there is a
caveat about that in the secton on gadgets. I don't have my copy handy, but
"it's in there".

>    2. If I AddGadget() a gadget and then later on RemoveGadget() it, it will
>    be impossible to select it, but it won't disappear from the display even
>    though I call RefreshGadgets() immediately after the RemoveGadget().

Um, ya got me there. I've heard of that problem, but I can't remember the
workaround.

> [...]
> - Kari Sutela  lk-kari@mammutti.utu.fi or sutela@tucos.utu.fi
> 
> PS. Pardon my bad english.

Your English was just fine, Kari. Better than most Americans, in fact!
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