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From: Julian.Wright@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Julian Wright)
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Subject: Re: tasks which leave desktop and return
Keywords: desktop, tasks
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Date: 24 Apr 91 22:38:43 GMT
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In article <1991Apr23.135553.17810@newcastle.ac.uk>,
J.W.Harley@newcastle.ac.uk (Jon Harley) writes:
|> I've seen a couple of desktop apps which take over the whole screen
|> while
|> they're active (ie the iconbar icon has been clicked), then return to
|> the
|> desktop afterwards without the "Press SPACE or click mouse to return
|> to
|> desktop" message. The apps in question were a home accounts program
|> and
|> !StrongEd, which you want to stay resident while you're not using
|> them.

I don't know about the home accounts program, but StrongEd doesn't ever
leave the desktop in the first place... it opens a big window with no
scroll or title bars and the background-bit set. In fact it even still
calls Wimp_Poll (or Wimp PollIdle) while you are editing. It does change
the screen mode (with Wimp_SetMode) and put it back to what it was when
you have finished. (BTW Has anyone ever tried to load a file into StrongED
which you don't have enough RAM for? :-))

The "Press Space or click mouse to continue" prompt only appears when a NON
wimp task has just finished, and it did some VDU output while it was
running. This is because the WIMP opens the Command Window for each new
task, and this puts up the prompt when it is later closed with default
parameters. If you want to avoid this prompt, simply close the command
window yourself first, with the parameter that means "Close without prompt"
(ie SYS "Wimp_CommandWindow",-1). Don't do this until you are ready to
re-enter the polling loop though!

    Cheers, Julian.
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jwright@comp.vuw.ac.nz                                julian@sideways.gen.ac.nz