cg@myrias.UUCP (Chris Gray) (03/03/88)
A couple of programs out there have had problems with Intuition guruing when
given too many items in a menu (wasn't it DPaint with the Fonts menu?). A
reasonable fix to this would be to support scrolling menus, sort of like the
new Mac software does. This can be done so that the applications programs
don't even have to know about the possibility - they can just make the
menus as long as they want and all will go well.
Also, how about adding an option on AUTOKNOB proportional gadgets so that
they have little arrows at the ends, which scroll by some small amount
specified by a parameter somewhere. Ones that look like those on WorkBench
windows would be just fine.
I'm not sure what you could do here, but gadgets are a real pain to set up.
Some kind of automated way to build simple (and not-so-simple) ones would
be a real asset.
How about a flag which lets any portion of a requester that isn't already
a gadget be a drag bar for the requester. I've built a couple of handy
utility-type requesters (including a general-purpose palette editor), but
since they are requesters, the user has no way of moving them out of the
way of something they may be obscuring. We could use windows instead of
requesters, but that doesn't lock out picking of gadgets on the parent
window, which is nice with gadgets. It's interesting to note that the
"AutoRequest" is actually a window, not a requester.
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Chris Gray Myrias Research, Edmonton +1 403 428 1616
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