From zerkle Mon Nov 14 17:33:08 1994 Received: by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.6) id AA11425; Mon, 14 Nov 94 17:33:07 PST Received: from mail.cs.utexas.edu by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.6) id AA11418; Mon, 14 Nov 94 17:33:03 PST Received: from lovelady.cs.utexas.edu (mthomas@lovelady.cs.utexas.edu [128.83.138.119]) by mail.cs.utexas.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA20694 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 1994 19:32:34 -0600 Received: by lovelady.cs.utexas.edu (8.6.9/Client-v1.4) id TAA00104; Mon, 14 Nov 1994 19:32:25 -0600 Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 19:32:24 -0600 (CST) From: "Mark A. Thomas" To: Amiga Announcements In-Reply-To: <9411142321.AA08077@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: SUBMIT Textfield Gadget 2.0 Errors-To: zerkle@cs.ucdavis.edu X-Server: Zserver v0.90beta Status: RO submit TITLE textfield.gadget VERSION 2.0 AUTHOR Mark Thomas mthomas@cs.utexas.edu DESCRIPTION The textfield.gadget is a BOOPSI gadget for text entry, supporting multiple lines, borders, two cursor types, an optional notepad look, font setting, style setting, and much more. The 2.0 version fixes some bugs and offers some new features: faster scrolling, true read-only mode, modified flag, accept/reject sets of characters, read line lengths, highlight text programmatically, IntuiText label support, and copy/copyall/cut/paste/erase/undo program- matically. A programmer who is familiar with BOOPSI can use this gadget by simply creating an instance, attach it to a window, then when needed, read the text from the gadget when necessary. All the text entry is handled by the gadget itself. When finished with the gadget it can simply be removed from the window and deleted. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS The gadget requires OS 2.04 and up. From the user's standpoint, for OS 2.04 and 2.1 the gadget must be placed in a draw where application that uses it exists, and for OS 3.0 and up the gadget can be installed in SYS:Classes/Gadgets. HOST NAME It is available on Aminet. Aminet's main site is ftp.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4). DIRECTORY /pub/aminet/dev/gui FILE NAME textfield.lha PRICE I do not require a fee to be paid by end users of the gadget, but the programs that use the gadget may require paying a fee of some sort, which should be directed to the author of that software, not me. The cost for using this gadget in a program is that I get a copy of the software package it is used in, at no cost to me. The purpose of this requirement is that I will be able to evaluate future needs of the gadget. Also, there should be mention of the gadget and author in the programs and documentation of the programs that use the gadget. In programs you can drop a short line in the About requester: textfield.gadget by Mark Thomas. The License file in the archive has more information. DISTRIBUTABILITY The archive may be distributed only in its entirety to anywhere, such as ftp sites, a BBS, or a disk collection such as Fish disks. The textfield.gadget file itself, and portions of the documentation pertaining to editor keyboard sequences can be distributed with software packages that use the gadget. OTHER Please send any bug reports or suggestions to me. There is a fully working example program that uses the gadget in the archive. There are normal and MUI examples. Enjoy! Mark A. Thomas | Check my personal page: mthomas@cs.utexas.edu | http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~mthomas ~mthomas