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From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Problems with ReportMouse()
Keywords: is it just my brain, or am I dead?
Message-ID: <18123@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 26 Jan 91 04:05:13 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.031010.11248@cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Jan23.221953.24626@cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Jan24.220856.1366@cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Jan24.220856.1366@cs.uiuc.edu> schwager@cs.uiuc.edu (Michael Schwager) writes:
>Well, dang.  I tried it the new way, and it still wouldn't work.  The only 
>thing that would was actually setting the Window's flags.  Which is fine, but
>I don't like wild-goose chases.  Ugh.
>
>-Mike


The intuition.library has the parameters to ReportMouse defined one way.
However, when you call an Amiga library routine, you are usually not calling
the library directly.  Instead first you go through a stub routine supplied
by your compiler mfgr that pulls the arguments off the stack, and sticks
them in the appropriate register.  In the case of ReportMouse, one of the
compiler mfgrs got it wrong, and had his/her stub routine putting
the arguments in the wrong registers. 

That's why the docs tell you to look in the docs that came with your compiler.

Or you could disassemble your stub and see what its doing, of course.

			andy
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