NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/comp/sys/acorn/10490

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From: [e-mail] (Anthony Frost)
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Subject: DeskLib 1.04
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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 22:48:05 +0000
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  >> Has there been any advance on DeskLib from version 1.04? I'm
  >> about to start on something that will benefit from its use
  >> and I'd like to be using the latest bits...

  > Nope. It stalled at 1.04 due to lack of time on my part and
  > a decision on my part to shift the emphasis onto a lot of
  > small, useful functions that can go into a shared desktop
  > library module in the future. Work will probably start back
  > up on DeskLib or an equivalent replacement after D-Day (the
  > day I have to hand in my thesis, February 26),

I remember that state of mind!

  > So if you do start writing something with DeskLib and you
  > find you have to implement something yourself, perhaps you
  > could consider implementing it in

One thing I will need are some alarm style functions as used by ROLib. I'll
forward them when I get something sorted if noone else beats me to it.

  > If anybody is interested, a kind gentleman sent me some code
  > that fills the menu code 'hole' with a RISC_OSLib-like
  > Menus() system (i.e creation of menus from menu_new() type
  > strings, etc),

YeahYeahYeahGimmeGimme! That's what stopped me using it for something else a
while back.

        Anthony