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From: rodent@netcom.COM (Ben Discoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Using the Layers library to do non-Intuition windows
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.031607.28073@netcom.COM>
Date: 24 Apr 91 03:16:07 GMT
References: <1991Apr19.003233.16889@netcom.COM> <1991Apr22.103115.3443@sugar.hackercorp.com>
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It seems I did a poor job of stating my original question about using the
Layers library directly.
  1. I have 6 years experience, telling me to "get the RKM" hurts.
  2. I CANNOT use a intuition window, because there is NO WAY to keep
intuition from drawing into a window when you activate it with the mouse.
Yes, even if you specify a borderless, title-less window with no gadgets,
Intuition will still paint a bar at the top of the window when you click
in it.  Also, I will no longer be able to receive input through my
original, backdrop window if I open other Intuition windows.  Tapping
the input device is (hopefully) unnecessary trouble.

  To explain why I seem to be going backwards in GUI evolution, let me
explain: I am very seriously creating a dBASE 4 work-a-like for the Amiga.
dBASE 4 windows are drawn with text, have no gadgets and in fact do not
support mice at all.  I would use text buffers to refresh each window,
but that involves writing my own text-based window manager to handle
refreshing.  I though, why do that when the Layers library will do refreshing
for me, and allow me to draw lines graphically in the windows as well?

  All I need is to define areas of my main window that can be depth-arranged.
(and opened, closed etc. like windows.)  My question is: can I use the
Layers library to do this, or will Intuition interfere, making it unfeasable?
I hope I've made myself clear... it is frustrating to be so misunderstood.

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Ben in San Jose, trying to do Great Things for the Amiga.