joe@vixen.uucp (Joe Hitchens) (01/14/90)
I suppose it is just about too late for idea suggestions for the next OS release, but I have one that I'll mention anyway. I wish, oh how I wish, there had been some standard Intuition library calls that would return default/standard gadgets and other Intuition entities. For example, I would call an Intuition function that would return a pointer to a Gadget structure that was already initialized with pointers to IntuiText and Image stuff for a simple, but nice button. Thus, to build a simple window, I could just "get" a few gadgets, and open the window. In other words, I want a function to "just give me a nice looking button that says O.K.", or "give me a nice looking string gadget that will hold 10 characters". You get the idea. If this were built into the OS, there would be several benefits. * My program would be smaller and simpler to write. * Chip ram usage could be reduced because the same imagery could be used for all gadgets of the same type ... sort of thing. * Applications would start to have a "consistent" user interface, which is often cited as one of the Mac's neatest things. * Maybe some others I can't think of right now. j.h. -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Joe Hitchens -- Artist, Sculptor, Animator of Sculpture, Iconographer Adept joe@vixen ...!uunet!iconsys!caeco!vixen!joe Phone: (801) 292-2190