I'm looking to learn Reaction programming. I've found this forum, the guide on os4depot, and a couple example articles on this site and of course have the SDK. Is that the comprehensive set of documentation for Reaction? Is that all current or has Reaction progressed since and needs new guides to be written? Is there more on the now absent utilitybase? Are there accessible archives from there?
I wonder, has anyone been successful enough to use colours and/or text styles in OS4 ReAction's texteditor.gadget? I remember there was a thread about it over at UtilityBase but the site has been down for months, unfortunately. A piece of example code would be great!
While fiddling around with AISSview I found some strange effects with the main view/work area, which is in itself an virtual gadget. Picture 1 shows the virtual area without scroll bar (all images fit into the visible area), picture 2 shows the virtual gadget with scroll bar (content bigger than visible area).
As seen in the pictures, there are problems with the inner border of the virtual gadget, grey/pattern area effects and "torn" fonts.
How would I best go about importing a disk-based plain text file to a texteditor.gadget? I mean, other than read text from the file and copy it to a memory buffer.
The autodoc says that GA_TEXTEDITOR_Contents can take a filehandle when I set my own GA_TEXTEDITOR_ImportHook, but a comment to the latter tag says that custom import hooks are currently not supported.
Also, the autodoc mentions "GM_TEXTEDITOR_Import" (and "GM_TEXTEDITOR_Export" as well) without any other reference.
So anyone got any serious experience with using Emperor the GUI builder tool?
1. I can't get my head around the horizontal and vertical layout structure.
This isn't helped by the fact that the objects aren't being resized correctly anyway (broken), see image below taken after following Example 2 in the Guide. Nothing like it should look like.
2. You can't move a whole branch of gadgets you have to move them individual which is impractical.
3. The preview button.. why not a preview window that updates as you manipulate the structure?
I am trying to use an integer.gadget in an dynamical GUI-Layout. If I add the gadget to an emtpy window, everything works fine. But if I try to do the very same in a page-layout, the string-box of the IntegerObject is missing.
In both cases I add the gadget to a vertical LayoutObject. What is different, when adding a gadget to a page-layout?
Below is the code I use.
This is the first time I've used the WINDOW_NewMenu tag to create and display menus. I never use this tag because I find it impractical (de-iconification of the window always resets the menu strip to the original NewMenu structure setting, thus discarding all current-state menu changes like checked or disabled items). But this time I was being too lazy and my menu too simple, so I went ahead and gave it a chance.
