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- From: hemmer@hemmer.adsp.sub.org (Franz Hemmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: workbench-like scrollers
- Message-ID: <hemmer.03wx@hemmer.adsp.sub.org>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 18:08:23 GMT
- References: <4fMmuKK00jWR89G2Zw@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Reply-To: hemmer@hemmer.adsp.sub.org (Franz Hemmer)
- Organization: Interactivsion
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- X-NewsSoftware: GRn-beta 1.16g (11.15.92) by Michael B. Smith & Mike Schwartz
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- In article <4fMmuKK00jWR89G2Zw@andrew.cmu.edu> kimberg+@CMU.EDU (Daniel Kimberg) writes:
- > can anyone tell me what the approved way is to add workbench-like
- > scrollers to a window? gadtools draws the gadget nicely, but it's not
- > easy to move and/or resize the gadget when necessary (that i can tell,
- > you have to redo the entire gadget list, and it's not clear from the
- > manual whether or not this is considered legal). with plain intuition
- > gadgets, it seems like you have to hardcode the look of the little
- > arrows, which sounds like a bad practice. i didn't see anything in
- > boopsi to help. is there a legal way to do this? i would have
- > thought such a common type of gadget would be easy to create.
-
- Regarding the images, you can always get the images by using the
- "sysiclass" and requesting the image you need. The object returned
- by NewObject() can be considered as an struct Image *, thus you can
- use it with normal intuition gadgets if you like.
-
- I assume that when you say "scollers as in the Workbench" you mean
- proportional gadgets in the window border? If so, try using "propgclass"
- boopsi gadgets.
-
- > dan
-
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