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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: background window/Scene question
Message-ID: <980@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 22 Oct 90 21:35:22 GMT
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Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
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In article <9692@milton.u.washington.edu> wjs@milton.u.washington.edu
	(William Jon Shipley) writes:
>EPS' description of how Scene works meshes with my knowledge, but he didn't
>mention that Scene actually redefines the PostScript variable "workspaceWindow"
>to be the number of its new window when it replaces the background.

It does more than that.
deskWin is redefined so the right mouse button will work,
workspaceWindow is for the left mouse button and the keyboard.

>Assumedly, if you reset your background to a constant color, Scene nukes the
>new window and resets workspaceWindow back to 14 (the 1.0 initial value of
>workspaceWindow).

Wrong.  It does a  <whatever> setgray clippath fill  on the
window it created, which is never freed.

BTW, the consensus was that I should hold explanation until I
have a complete posting prepared.

					-=EPS=-
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Of course it's taking a long time... it's a BACKGROUND task.  :-)