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From: d89-rbn@sm.luth.se (Robert Buren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Intuition beginner's problem
Keywords: multitasking intuition
Message-ID: <1511@tau.sm.luth.se>
Date: 17 Mar 91 16:23:18 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
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I'm learning how to use multitasking in my programs, but I seem to have
run into a problem here. I made a very simple program that opens up a
window and attaches some menus to it, and everything worked just fine.
The next step was to make an About routine that just opens up another
window and writes my name in it.. Still no problems. But(!) then I wanted
the Aboutroutine to run as a childtask. Hello Guru.
 The program works just fine up to this line:

AboutTask = CreateTask("About",0,AboutCode,5000);

where AboutCode was declared earlier as

extern VOID AboutCode();

It works just fine if I replace the CreateTask line with just AboutCode(); ,
but no multitasking, of course.
I've been following the multitasking example code in "The Kickstart guide to
the Amiga", but I cannot find anything pointing me to the bug.

HELP

--
Robert Buren
d89-rbn@sm.luth.se