Creating AWS Windows at runtime

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Well, I've got a couple of questions regarding AWS:

1. Is it possible to create AWS windows at runtime, that means without a .def file?
2. Can I connect a Signal from a Source (lets say a button) to a Sink/trigger at runtime?

Thanks for your answers

[mark]

I had the same question and after weeks of searching and trying the answer is no (and if yes, then it is hidden very, very good).
I don't like that def-file stuff and the eventhandling from aws and would appreciate a codeable system with windows based on a hierarchical structure and many methods, but there is no other way... :-/

You can try the window-system from the planeshift project (if it's ok for you to release your program GPLed), this seems to work this way.

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Thanks a lot (although this is not the answer I hoped for ). I think the def-file-only policy is very bad because you loose control and flexibility.

So there is no way to change the content of a window at runtime or have a couple of windows from the same definition, but with different sinks/slots/triggers connected to each of them, right?

Then I will give the Planeshift wnd system a try or write my own.

[sunshine]

Christopher Nelson, the author of AWS, is in the process of creating AWS2, which is supposed to address a lot of the complaints and difficulties people have had with AWS. You might want to voice this issue on the crystal-main mailing list so that it comes to his attention.