Re: [as-devel] New Feature Request (fwd)
Sasha (sasha@sprintmail.com)
Wed, 8 Mar 2000 00:35:12 -0600
On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> dmihm@rchitecture.com writes:
> >Would
> >it be possible to add the ability to have one of your title-buttons
> >set based on the application?
>
> That actually doesn't sound to hard. All that would be required would be
> having AfterStep go to the window's line in the database for button foo
> instead of going into the look file for that information. Then again, I've
> only worked with the config parser code and ascp, so I'm just tossing
> around an idea ........
In fact it really is much more complex then what it seems to be.
It would be possible to change underlying code in AS without much
problems, but it does raise quite a few configuration issues.
I mean current configuration of titlebuttons is terrible, and trying to adapt it
to what you want would be a nightmare. Add here is ability to selectively turn
off/on buttons in database file based on app.
Somebody ought to come up with fresh idea about all this - everything
that I've heard, or being able to come up with is clamsy or messy or both.
Send in your proposals :)
Althou all this are on the second front - first thing is to get ascp out.
Sasha
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