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Article #8539

Re: String gadgets

#8539
From: Peter Schachte
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 1988 07:16
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In article <5698@well.UUCP>, shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) writes:
> If you need to know when the user is through with the string gadget, just
> look for any other message coming from the same {Window|Requester}.  As soon
> as one comes, you know the user is done with the gadget, since you can't
> get another message until he clicks someplace else or presses return.

Not so.  You may get a message to refresh your window (REFRESHWINDOW?
I don't have my manuals here.)  This doesn't mean that he's done with
the gadget.  Or you could get a MENU-related message.  You have to be
somewhat selective.
-- 
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
...!sun!quintus!pds
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Message-ID: <882@trantor.quintus.UUCP>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!quintus!pds
References: <239@gtss.UUCP> <5698@well.UUCP>

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!quintus!pds
From: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: String gadgets
Message-ID: <882@trantor.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 16 Apr 88 07:16:08 GMT
References: <239@gtss.UUCP> <5698@well.UUCP>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
Lines: 14
Keywords: string gadget intuition de-selection
Summary: You could get a message to refresh your window