Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!mike From: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Gadget/requester/menu tools Message-ID: <8564@ames.arc.nasa.gov> Date: 10 May 88 19:51:45 GMT References: <4015@killer.UUCP> Reply-To: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Mike Smithwick) Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Lines: 45 [my line-eater can beat your line-eater!] In article <4015@killer.UUCP> elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes: >As a recent Amigan (1 week, as of this posting), I am astounded at the amount >of work you have to do to set up good-looking Intuition objects. > > >Are there tools to somewhat automate this process? I'd love to be able to >define and move menus around interactively, for example, and then have the "C" >declarations written to disk for me, ready to shove into my program.... and >gadgets -- gawd, what a nightmare, defining those things, especially choosing >correct placement within your window, and dealing with the more esoteric ones >(proportional gadgets, or custom Images, anybody?). You've come to the right place my son. Run, don't walk, to your nearest Amiga dealer, and get yerself "PowerWindows II". This will do everything, (well nearly everything) that you would want for setting up Intuition windows. It will let you read in DPaint brushes, and convert them to gadget images, create screen palettes, function tables, custom window borders. It can build up virtually any kind of menu you want, interactively, including images instead of text. You can create one gadget, then clone it as many times as you like. They may be moved around dynamically, resized, repositioned and deleted on the fly. But wait! There's more! It has a nice set of options, that may be stored on disk for later use. Powerwindows generates source for Modula II, Lattice and Manx C, and assembly programs. It even has some built in memory optimization schemes. There are a few small problems, but they are far outweighed by the fun of building up a screen in minutes which would otherwise take hours by the squint-at-the-graph-paper-at-3-AM technique. I don't now what I'd do without my Powerwindows, buy yours today! *** mike *** [the above was a public service announcment by RSN Software, Inc.] -- *** mike (Cyberpunk in training) smithwick *** "Use an Atari, go to jail!" [disclaimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]