Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!viusys!uxui!unislc!dave From: dave@unislc.uucp (Dave Martin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Word processors that take over the machine (was: Lemmings) Message-ID: <1991Apr5.201054.28014@unislc.uucp> Date: 5 Apr 91 20:10:54 GMT References: Organization: unisys Lines: 27 From article , by wfaust@venus.UUCP (Wolf Faust): > Anyway the problem remains with many programs: simply access the > menu and hold the right mouse button for 10 seconds... intuition > makes a forbid()! So scrolling is fine with CED, but accessing > menus for a longer period is still not recommended. CED won't > trash your uploads or download if you have setup your > buffer/handshake right and you don't hold the menu/scroll for a > long time without a break (>5seconds). Intuition does not make a Forbid(). It does a locklayers. basically, anything that tries to output to that screen will be on hold WHEN it tries to modify its display area. Things running on other screens will not stop. Things on the same screen not doing output to the bitmap (through layers.library) will not stop. run something that opens its own screen (perhaps some life program). pull the screen down halfway to expose workbench. While life is running, start something on workbench (such as the lines/boxes/dots demos). Now hold down the menu button, notice that life does not stop but the workbench demo(s) do. Now release menu button, click in life screen, hold down menu button. (Assuming your life program doesn't use the menu button for something else.) See? -- VAX Headroom Speaking for myself only... blah blah blahblah blah... Internet: DMARTIN@CC.WEBER.EDU dave@saltlcy-unisys.army.mil uucp: dave@unislc.uucp or use the Path: line. Now was that civilized? No, clearly not. Fun, but in no sense civilized.