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 Lines: 25 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)