Gad Ed report
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GADGET EDITOR STATUS REPORT
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Just a notice to all you people patiently waiting for the Gadget editor. It
is coming along quite well. I am currently finishing up the addition of
Intuitext to the gadgets. Dave from Sacramento, is tidying up the menus,
and Brent is working on the part that saves to disk.
The current version of the gadget editor allows you to "Draw" the rectangles
on the screen to any size which represents the rectangle that incloses the
gadget. The RIGHT mouse button is used for the menus and Drawing the
gadgets, the LEFT button is used for playing with them.
Currently, it is very easy to "break" the program and crash the system by
putting in "strange" flag settings, and other "wrong" things. I currently do
NO error checking in that department, this is so that Jim Mackraz at Amiga
would have full control (If he is even using it).
Eventually, as my knowledge of Intuition increases, I will be putting in
the necessary checks to prevent entering in wrong gadgets. I am going to be
working on the Exclusion portion sometime in the next following weeks.
Other additions include:
1. Naming the gadgets
2. Fixed a bug in the "Save as Source" section, so the proper
structure initialization text is correct.
The only thing left that needs to be added is the ability to add custom
Images. Do we have any volunteers? If so, please mail me at the
following net address at the end of this letter.
The planned meetings we have on CIS and the WELL are very productive, and we
get a lot accomplished. We could use a good "bitmap" expert. And need more
volunteers. This project and resultant program can save a lot of us
programmers a lot of time and work. It is worth spending a little time
working on it.
Our next meeting will take place in a few weeks. Exact meeting date is not
yet set. Anyone wanting to work on it, Please mail me, and I will mail
you the source listing. I'm compiling it on the Manx C compiler. The
source is also on the WELL in the Programmers Network library, and in a
special section in the Amiga sig on Compuserve. If you have an account on
Compuserve, Please mail me your PPN so I can have you added. It takes a
few days for the CIS Sysop to validate you.