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From: don@milton.u.washington.edu (Don Clifton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Closing AES boxes interfering with VDI drawing
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Date: 18 Dec 90 06:23:40 GMT
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In article <111628@convex.convex.com> rosenkra@convex.com (William Rosencranz) writes:

>and it is the only way i know of to use dialogs larger than 25% of the
>screen. unless u can suggest a better approach? i'd gladly change my
>evil ways :-).

There is no limit to the size of a dialog. A dialog can fill the entire screen.
This is because the area covered by the dialog is not saved in bitmap form,
but instead is redrawn by GEM and the application that owns the window(s) it 
covers. Only the size of alerts is limited.       

Don Clifton