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From: zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Question on System Request
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Date: 20 Nov 90 06:17:07 GMT
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In article <1990Nov19.151458.7631@diku.dk> aggaton@diku.dk (Klavs Torben Pedersen) writes:
>     I've got a C programming question, that have been bothering me for some 
>time now... I open a screen and a standard window on it, next I attach a console
>to the window, all this goes fine, until I begin to access the disks...Suddenly
>the screen is changed, and the system request window is shown "Please insert"
>bla. bla. bla. How the f*&^$ can I make this Bl*&^% requester to pop up on MY
>window?????

According to the 1.3 Rom Kernel Manual, Libraries and Devices:

System requester are invoked by the operating system; your program has
no control over these.  For example, someone using a text editor might
try to save a file to disk when there is no disk in the drive.  The
system requester comes up and makes sure the user understands the
situation and requests a response from the user.

In other words, you're screwed.  However, I'm sure there's some hack
floating around out there to let you do this, even if it is probably
ugly and nonstandard and will break under the next OS release....

Good luck!

           Dan Zerkle  zerkle@iris.eecs.ucdavis.edu  (916) 754-0240
           Amiga...  Because life is too short for boring computers.