Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!umd5!brl-adm!husc6!linus!philabs!spies!ssdis!gsarff From: gsarff@ssdis.UUCP (gary sarff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Gadget/requester/menu tools Summary: yes there are gadget tools Message-ID: <138@ssdis.UUCP> Date: 10 May 88 17:49:27 GMT References: <4015@killer.UUCP> Organization: (SSD-IS) Special Security Department, Internal Security Lines: 27 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. For example, I think everyone was. > 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?). > Eric Lee Green elg@usl.CSNET Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191 > ihnp4!killer!elg Lafayette, LA 70509 > "Is a dream a lie that don't come true, or is it something worse?" get PowerWindows by Innovatronics (I think) you should find it advertised in amigaworld, amazing computer et.al. It is about $65. It does that, gadgets menus, windows, etc -> C code. You can draw and use your mouse, import iff brushes etc. They also have something called InovaTools 1 that is supposed to put a nice package around some of the graphics routines giving you a higher level of interface to the drawing routines in the amiga. I've never used it though. -- Gary Sarff {uunet|ihnp4|philabs}!spies!ssdis!gsarff To program is human, to debug is something best left to the gods. "Spitbol?? You program in a language called Spitbol?" The reason computer chips are so small is that computers don't eat much.