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Re: [MiNT] XaAES
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From: "Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 12:14 AM
To: <mint@lists.fishpool.fi>
Subject: Re: [MiNT] XaAES
1. Don't use ' ' (space) as Alt-shortcut in dialogs.
Already changed to insert in my current version.
This is not the same thing. As you know, XaAES will automatically generate
underscores for Alt-shortcuts in dialogs when loading a RSC, and also when
handling alerts. Some people like to pad the button-strings in alerts with
spaces, in this case the first button always get Alt+space as shortcut.
Space should not be considered a valid shortcut IMO.
2. Menubar in windows doesn't work properly. It's been a while since I
looked into this, but among other things the menu stops working when the
window that owns it is un-iconified. I have a test-program that use this
feature that can be used as a test-case.
I never had an example for this.
3. Redrawing the menu bar (in a window) only works the "proper" way
(wind_set(handle, WF_TOOLBAR, NULL, 0, 0)) when the window has a toolbar
attached. If the window doesn't have a toolbar, you'll have to use the
old form_dial(FMD_FINISH...-trick.
Same as 2.
I can mail you a test-program if you like.
BTW: Nobody has tried one of my changes yet, right?
No network on my Milan, so currently I have no convenient way of getting
stuff larger than a floppy ;-) An impressive list though, will have to try
it somehow. Do you have a 060-binary I can test on my Milan?
- Todo/Wishlist:
- Resolution-Change
- This feature is disabled (as it was in the original)
-> Remove from menu or implement it
IIRC Ozk has already done a lot of work on this but never checked it in. He
made loadable modules to do resolution changes on the Videl, Nova and Milan
hardware.
- New features
- Make the G_SLIST-object available to applications :-)
- A better Control-Alt-Tab handler. One that puts the previously top
application in front of the list, and skips accessories. Or provide a clean
hook into Control-Alt-Tab so I can enable the handler in Taskbar again ;-)
- Taskmanager
- Display more apps -> like top, maybe as tree
- Display memory/CPU-usage as graph for each client/prog
- Display memory/CPU-usage as graph for the whole system
- Display network-traffic as graph (for each client/prog?)
All good stuff, but is this really kernel-stuff? I would rather see this as
a separate application that can be called by a special key-combo (like
Alt+Help will execute althelp.sys today). You can find all the necessary
information in /kern anyway (well, not network traffic perhaps).
Jo Even
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