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From: jmwheele@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (John Mcgehee Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Integration of Text and Graphics in a View
Keywords: object-oriented graphics sound
Message-ID: <13942@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 18 Feb 90 18:30:11 GMT
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Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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I'm interested in doing an object-oriented sound composition tool on
the NeXT for my senior independent work.

The NeXT Mail application contains the key to my user interface:
integration of text and graphics in a view in which clicking on an
icon sends a message to another application, and dragging in an icon
from the browser sends a message to Mail to insert that icon into
the text as an attachment.  (At least, that's what it seems to do.)

I would like to use these icons as objects which may be used in one
sense to generate the display and in another sense to collapse as
text so that they may be parsed.  The ability to also display text
or use pop-up menus on top of an icon is another desire.

Is there anyone who has code which can do this?  (Or will NeXT hand
out code for their MailView object?)

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