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From: rcb@netcom.COM (Roy Bixler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: saving screen in a GEM app.
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.193606.6530@netcom.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 91 19:36:06 GMT
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warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>You asked about setting your own desktop object, here's how:
>
>First, to set an object as the new desktop:
>(note, this is hacked from Modula-2, so beware)
>
>NewDesk=14
>rsrc_gaddr(tree,FormNumber,&Form);
>wind_set(0,NewDesk,Form,0);
>
>To go back to the original desktop:
>
>wind_set(0,NewDesk,0,0);

I tried this and it worked fine.  I will do this, but as an
alternative, I could go back to what I was doing before (redrawing my
original object when the dialog is finished).  It's just a lot nicer
to have system support, instead of having to program everything
yourself.

>
>
>Warwick.
>--
>  _-_|\       warwick@cs.uq.oz.au
> /     *  <-- Computer Science Department,
> \_.-._/      University of Queensland,
>      v       Brisbane, AUSTRALIA.

Thanks very much!

-- 
Roy Bixler
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