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From: forgeas@swinjm.UUCP (Jean-Michel Forgeas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: intuition help wanted...
Message-ID: <194b43db.ARN0eb1@swinjm.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 91 14:36:11 GMT
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References: <1991Jun10.092301.5350@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: forgeas@swinjm.UUCP (Jean-Michel Forgeas)
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In article <1991Jun10.092301.5350@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>, kxgj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:

> [...]I currently accomplish this by MoveWindow* (to upper left), SizeWindow* (to
> full [or on return to small] size), WindowToFront*, SetRast*, RedrawWindowFrame*

Guess that MoveWindow* and SizeWindow* would have a chance to execute
faster if you WindowToFront* before them (because of layers).

> [...]expect.  Typically, part of the graphics in GraphicCalls (my own...) are
> drawn as if the window had not been resized yet.  It is not consistent in that
> sometimes all of the graphic calls are sized incorrectly, sometimes part and
> at others, all are correct.  I've stabilized the behavior by adding MakeScreen*
> and RethinkDisplay* after each of the system calls above but I don't think that
> this should be necessary. [...]
>
> My specific questions:
>   1.  What is causing the problem and are the MakeScreens and RethinkDisplays
>       the appropriate fix?  If so, does this imply that I should do them
>       after each system call such as these?

All you have with these two calls is time, doing some Delay() could act
as well: Intuition get enough time to resize the window before your draw
into it.

>   2.  Is there a better way to approach the window resizing function that
>       I want?

The SizeWindow() call does not resize your window but tells Intuition to
resize it. See the autodocs:
    "Note that the Window will not be sized immediately"

You could do this way:
- SizeWindow(),
- Wait() or WaitPort() for the NEWSIZE message class from Intuition,
- draw into the window with graphic calls.

>   3.  What is the best refresh flag to set for the window(s) in this
>       situation?  I think I am using SMARTREFRESH (oh, for a memory that
>       worked...).

As a user my preference is that you set SMARTREFRESH.
I don't like when redrawing windows take too much time :-)

> Kirk
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