Toolbox_ShowObject child windows

[Christian Ludlam]

On 29 Nov Tom Hughes wrote:

> On Nov 28, 2007 6:00 PM, Christian Ludlam <christian at recoil.org> wrote:
> 
> > The window module is capable of embedding a window in a parent given
> > appropriate flags to Toolbox_ShowObject. Here's one way of supporting
> > this in OSLib - it creates a new structure, toolbox_child, identical to
> > toolbox_full but adding the child window fields, and a definition for the
> > new show flag.
> 
> Do you have a source for this? It isn't in my toolbox manual so is
> presumably an extension added at some point?

The ROOL Toolbox sources :-)

 *          28-Sep-96: EPW: Added flag to Toolbox_ShowObject_FullSpec to
 *                          mean embedded inside a parent window.

> It seems odd that a flag in R0 is controlling this - it looks like R2 is
> supposed to control the meaning of R3 for ShowObject?

Yes, I thought that was funny too. I guess it's supposed to be a behaviour
modifier for fullspec shows (but ends up needing more information anyway).

> > I haven't been able to test this, do you not support building under RISC
> > OS any more?
> 
> I build under RISC OS no problem, but I've always used my own build
> system not the one that ships with OSLib.

Well I always used to, but cvs update obviously didn't work, and DefMod no
longer has a RISC OS makefile - it's not just out of date, it's not even
there any more.

-- 
Christian Ludlam
christian at recoil.org