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From: guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com (W. John Guineau)
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Subject: Re:  Hooks into the OS vs doing it all yourself (Was Re: Clueless Mac<>)
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Date: 25 Jan 91 12:59:13 GMT
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In article <1991Jan25.075446.716@Neon.Stanford.EDU>,
torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan J Torrie) writes:
|> From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan J Torrie)
|> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
|> Subject: Re:  Hooks into the OS vs doing it all yourself (Was Re:
|> Clueless Mac<>)
|> 
|> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
|> 
|> >In article <1991Jan21.172643.20642@Neon.Stanford.EDU>,
|> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan J Torrie) writes:
|> >> lrg7030@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) writes:
|> >> >most things under the MacOS, if you want it *you*, the
|> programmer, 
|> >> >must recreate it for every program.  
|> 
|> >>   Hmm.  I just use a class library for most of the "common"
|> actions.
|> >> Takes no work at all on my part.
|> 
|> >This is the X-windows solution. Let's load up every program with
|> extra baggage
|> >because the GUI/OS/whatever is inadequate. And the Mac doesn't even
|> have
|> >shared libraries to make this relatively painless.
|> 
|>   What kind of hooks does the Amiga have into the OS for things that
|> are handled "automagically"?  e.g. I recall that when a window gets
|> resized, the OS handles everything for you [mouse tracking? window
|> outline? new window frame?] and just sends you a "Window Changed"
|> message.
|>   Can your program get its hooks into this event BEFORE the OS gets
|> hold of it and "do its own thing"?

These windows are called SMART_REFRESH, if you want to do it yourself, you tell
the OS (when you create a window) that you will handle refresh events. Then
you get BEGIN_REFRESH messages (or something to the effect of "it's time to 
fix your window")



|> 
|> -- 
|>
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|> Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?      
|> torrie@cs.stanford.edu   
|> "If it weren't for your gumboots, where would you be?   You'd be in
|> the
|> hospital, or in-firm-ary..."  F. Dagg
|> 

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