Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!puff!avery
From: avery@puff.cs.wisc.edu (Aaron Avery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Gadget/requester/menu tools
Message-ID: <1684@puff.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 8 May 88 10:17:49 GMT
References: <4015@killer.UUCP>
Reply-To: avery@puff.WISC.EDU (Aaron Avery)
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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In article <4015@killer.UUCP> elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes:
>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 may want to check out a commercial program called PowerWindows, by
INNOVATRONICS, INC. It does pretty much what you want, I think.

>At the minimum, is there any way possible to get an Image out of a paint
>program, besides picking the magnifying glass (or whatever), putting pixels on
>graph paper, then converting pixels into numbers?

Yes. A loooong time ago someone wrote a program which he called 'gi', probably
for 'get image' which did just this. There's also a program called 'NGI', being
marketed by National Pixel Products. Many of these types of tools exist, and
it'll just take time to become familiar with what's available. I'd strongly
suggest you find your nearest user's/developer's group, and also pick up some
copies of Amazing Computing.

-- 
Aaron Avery (avery@puff.cs.wisc.edu)
	    ({seismo,caip,allegra,harvard,rutgers,ihnp4}!uwvax!puff!avery)