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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: Ptr to top screen
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Date: 8 Apr 90 20:11:20 GMT
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In article <10068@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley) writes:
|In article <2846@leah.Albany.Edu> wfh58@leah.albany.edu.UUCP (William F. Hammond) writes:
||  One of the things I might want to do on someone else's screen is open
||a window for my application.  For example, I (the user) often run "VLT"
||under its custom screen option.

|In general, this is illegal.  There's no provision within Intuition for
|sharing private screens--only the workbench screen is shared.  In the
|particular case of "VLT", Willy Langeveld, author of VLT, has written
|a library called screenshare.library which provides a simple means for
|programs to make their screens publically available to other programs
|which use screenshare.library.  Latest version is on Fish disk 308.

Until 1.4 becomes available, ANY way to share screens (including Willy's
screenshare.library) is a kludge and is unsupportable (that is, it probably 
won't work in a future release of the OS).  That's one reason we've refused to
support screenshare.library.  "kludgy" public screens might be OK for PD
or shareware, but not for commercials that are supposed to follow the rules.

-- Marco
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