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From: csuwr@warwick.ac.uk (Derek Hunter)
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Subject: !Largeness and WimpV (was Re: two new utilities on info server)
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Date: 7 Mar 91 11:29:00 GMT
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How does !Largeness work? I've been trying to write something like this,
 but got stopped at the concept stage when I decided that the only way of
 trapping Wimp_CreateWindow was by trapping SWIV which would slow the computer
 down something horrible.

Acorn, /why/ didn't you provide a WIMPV? Surely it wouldn't have been /that/
 hard, and it would presumably allow more than just a larger virtual desktop
 to be inserted (Just what it /would/ have allowed is obviously something
 that some inventive soul would have to work out).

Is it possible to have a module which claims to /be/ the Wimp module, but
 really just sends modified SWIs to the original? (Is this what the WimpUtils
 hack does?)

Could you provide a WIMPV in RISC OS 3, along with any other vectors people
 are liable to want to trap (suggestions anyone?)?

- Derek Hunter