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[ I'm a line-eater and I'm O.K., I eat mail at night and I sleep all day ]

I'm having problems getting potentiometer gadgets to work the way I
would like.  Intuition provides GADGIMMEDIATE flags for GADGETDOWN
IDCMP events, FOLLOWMOUSE flag for MOUSEMOVE events, and
RELVERIFY for GADGETUP events.  The problem I have is that
RELVERIFY gadgets only provide GADGETUP events if the mouse is
over the gadget at the time of left mouse button release.
I would like to have a gadget flag that guarantees GADGETUP events
if you get a GADGETDOWN event.

I have an operation I would like to do everytime the user uses a
particular potentiometer gadget.  The operation is too time consuming
to do as the potentiometer is sliding, so I'd like to defer the
operation until the user let's go of the potentiometer gadget.
The results of the operation depend on the value of the slider
at the time of it's release.

Because of a RELVERIFY gadget's operation I can't be sure that
I'll get the GADGETUP event, and then can't perform the desired
operation.

In my application, it is as important to know that the user has
stopped using the gadget as it is that they started using it.

I can simulate my own slider using MOUSEBUTTONS and MOUSEMOVES, but
then I have to slide the knob and clear the container and all that
other stuff.

Is there some other flag tha I don't know about that will do what I
want?  If not then is it reasonable to add a new flag for 1.4?

Kevin
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