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From: billy@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (Jeff Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Disabling System Requesters from C.
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.113258.2944@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au>
Date: 22 Apr 91 11:32:58 GMT
References: <1991Apr12.195535.16815@ucunx1.san.uc.edu> <1991Apr13.081303.3300@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <2852@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>
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In <2852@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> jpotter@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Jonathan Potter) writes:

>In article <1991Apr13.081303.3300@watdragon.waterloo.edu> ccplumb@rose.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb) writes:
>>In your process structure, there's a pr_WindowPtr field.  This is the window
>>the DOS requesters get hung off of.  If set to NULL, dos requesters silently
>>fail. (see libraries/dosextens.h)
>>--
>>       -Colin

>If set to NULL, dos requesters appear on the Workbench screen. To prevent them
>from appearing at all, you must set pr_WindowPtr=-1;

It also should be noted that if left in this state once your program is 
finished you will not get the requesters enabled again.Make sure you take
a copy of what pr_WindowPtr is before you use it and RESTORE it when you have
finished.

jeff.