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From: johnv@tower.actrix.gen.nz (John Veldthuis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Assembly confusion
Message-ID: <3502.tnews@tower.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 4 Jan 91 03:32:44 GMT
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Quoted from <3735@orbit.cts.com> by koleman@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Kurt Koller):

[stuff deleted]

>  
> And for the second question...
>  
> I have this:
>                 movea.l (KWPtr),a0              ;Pointer to window's user
>                 movea.l (wd_UserPort,a0),a0     ;  port goes in a0

Make sure that d1 has been zeroed as only the lower 8 bits are effected by
this instruction and old data may be still in there
add a moveq #0,d1 to zero out d1

>                 move.b  (MP_SIGBIT,a0),d1       ;window's signal bits
>                 moveq.l #1,d0                   ;Convert bit number in mask
>                 lsl.l   d1,d0                   ;  and place result in d0
>                 SYSCALL Wait                    ;Wait for closegadget
>  
>  
> And I'm waiting for a MENUPICK.  This is the only thing I am waiting for, not
> a closegadget.  It used to be a closegadget.  Anyhow, what do I do next?  All
> of the RKM examples on this are in C, and I am having a difficult time with
> this one.  CAn someone maybe mail me an example of how to figure out what
> menuitem was chosen, etc?  MAybe mail me an example (in assembly, please)...

Once the Wait call returns you have to call GetMsg() untill it returns a
NULL and process each of these messages.
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