intuition questions

[meynaf]

I have a few problems creating my window gadgets, mostly with their imagery which is the first step.
Hence the questions here :

1.
Is there any facility to create a gadget that will just display several lines of text ? Or must i really create as many IntuiText structures as there are lines, which will then need to be reallocated and/or destroyed whenever the gadget is resized (and lead to unneeded complexity) ?

2.
Can i get gadtools-like visuals with frameiclass to draw the border (and the selected background) ? I mean, trying to use it has lead to a result that's far away from what's needed.

3.
Is it possible to give a border to a string gadget, that will look correct without having to draw it outside of its select box ?
(Regular intuition string gadget or strgclass, either is enough, but both fail for now.)

4.
Are structs Border and Image definitely incompatible for use on same gadget ?

[Thomas Richter]

Originally Posted by meynaf

Is there any facility to create a gadget that will just display several lines of text ?

No.

Originally Posted by meynaf

Can i get gadtools-like visuals with frameiclass to draw the border (and the selected background) ?

Yes. A frameiclass instance is a replacement of an IntuiImage. You can use it whenever an IntuiImage would work.

Originally Posted by meynaf

Is it possible to give a border to a string gadget, that will look correct without having to draw it outside of its select box ?

No. The frame of a string gadget has obviously to go outside its box as otherwise the rendered text would overwrite the frame.

Originally Posted by meynaf

Are structs Border and Image definitely incompatible for use on same gadget ?

Yes. But you can use an "image-like" boopsi as a replacement for an image.

[meynaf]

Originally Posted by Thomas Richter

Yes. A frameiclass instance is a replacement of an IntuiImage. You can use it whenever an IntuiImage would work.

I know about Image struct but not IntuiImage.

Anyway, frameiclass does not give me the right imagery.

Instead of :

11111111112
11       22
12222222222

It gives :

1111111111
1         2
 2222222222

And i've found no tag to change this behaviour (i can only swap the two colors and remove the background fill).

Originally Posted by Thomas Richter

No. The frame of a string gadget has obviously to go outside its box as otherwise the rendered text would overwrite the frame.

A placement - like in IntuiText - would have solved that. And perhaps a boopsi class could have done it by itself. That was the question.
It can make some refresh situations problematic.

[Minuous]

You can do 1, 2 and 3 by using texteditor.gadget, bevel.image and string.gadget, respectively.

[Thomas Richter]

Originally Posted by meynaf

Anyway, frameiclass does not give me the right imagery.

Then you don't request the right type of frame.

[meynaf]

Originally Posted by Minuous

You can do 1, 2 and 3 by using texteditor.gadget, bevel.image and string.gadget, respectively.

Cool, but they seem to appear a little too late. Must run under V39, and if possible under V37 and without the end user having to install anything.

Originally Posted by Thomas Richter

Then you don't request the right type of frame.

Sure, but how can I possibly do that -- there is no tag for it.
http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD.../node04DF.html
Only IA_Recessed and IA_EdgesOnly exist, both are bool. They do what they're expected to, but it doesn't help with the overall wrong graphic.

[Thomas Richter]

Originally Posted by meynaf

Sure, but how can I possibly do that -- there is no tag for it.

IA_FrameType

[meynaf]

Originally Posted by Thomas Richter

IA_FrameType

Ok now that works. It's just that it's v39+, which explains why original docs didn't mention it. Not sure if i should enforce this version in my apps, though. Probably not worth.

[Bruce Abbott]

Originally Posted by meynaf

Cool, but they seem to appear a little too late. Must run under V39, and if possible under V37 and without the end user having to install anything.

Why?

[meynaf]

Originally Posted by Bruce Abbott

Why?

For now all my programs just work out of the box. Nothing to add to the machine. I would prefer if this doesn't change.

[kamelito]

To me there’s 2 kind of Amiga usage, 1.3 to play games and demos and OS applications users and IMO they should use the latest OS available.

[meynaf]

Originally Posted by kamelito

To me there’s 2 kind of Amiga usage, 1.3 to play games and demos and OS applications users and IMO they should use the latest OS available.

That's very possible but please stay on topic.