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Can we please have an official Hyperion word on how the poor developers should implement codeset conversion in their programs? I mean, in a future-proof way: "the recommended practice", if you like. Is codesets.library the way? Or is there an alternative solution under development that is ...

That's not a MultiView problem, it's a text.datatype problem. Apparently, the datatype performs filetype check and if it finds non-standard characters, it fails to recognize the text file and returns an error.

@JosDuchIt

ZeroG wrote:The lowest version to use is 52 (OS4.0 non-Beta) for system libraries, or 53 if it's a OS4.1 only app.

I think (cannot check at the moment) that in the original OS4.1 (pre-Update 1), some of the ReAction classes (texteditor.gadget?) are still at version 52. Looks like oversight to me.

I'm fine with any solution that

• is not inherent to all windows;
• doesn't defeat the purpose of a multi-window environment by making windows compete for priority;
• doesn't clutter the window bar with unnecessary gadgets. Like I say, the pop-up menu is a neat solution.

@ nexus If this were such a great and much-needed feature, surely operating systems would have implemented that in their windowing environments years ago? And I'm quite sure that OS and UI developments are pushed forward by greater brains than mine or yours :-) But seriously: adding another gadget t...

@all All the "Always on top" windows will be above the other windows, and the user must use the front/back button to order them. I don't know how difficult is to implement this, but it might be really usefull some times. As Rigo said, that's what we have already. But I really think it sho...

The ReAction gadget autodocs list the useful "GA_" tags but GA_TabCycle is not among them. I think it would be handy to list it as well, for two reasons: Many people are still unaware that the tab-cycling feature can be used with most gadgets, not just strings and integers (this fact is, I...

For historical reasons, the AmigaOS autodoc files take the .doc extension. I think it doesn't make sense any more - especially as the said extension denotes, by purest chance, a certain file format used by the most widespread editor in the world :-) The autodocs are text files so .txt would be more ...

@Calgor, nexus Of course there are ways to do it, I won't disagree on that! But I was rather talking about something else. Walkero - if I understand him correctly - wanted every window to have a toggle gadget in the bar showing (and letting the user select) whether the stay-on-top feature is on or o...

@walkero I wish there was a new window gadget, beside minimize, bring to back etc., that could lock the window to be all the time at the top of every other window. That is already possible but the programmer must enable this feature from within the code (by passing WA_StayTop, TRUE in the window def...