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From: jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john  cavallino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.001133.212@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 91 00:11:33 GMT
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In article <1991Jun27.235411.16654@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>In article <1991Jun27.232602.22983@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> tagreen@lothario.ucs.indiana.edu (Todd Green) writes:
>>Also in reference to an earlier post there is no need on the Mac to
>>continually "peek" at the application to see if it's finished
>>rendering or doing whatever.  There is a thing called the notification
>>manager which most/some programmers take advantage of that can flash a
>>small icon (or a sound or an alert box) notifying you that some
>>process was completed.  An excellent example of this is Mandlezot by
>>Dave Platt. Of course that still doesn't stop me from checking on the
>>progress from time to time if I'm bored ;).
>
>  This is sort of like the Amiga's DisplayBeep() function which flashes
>all screens. I think it's more attention getting than the Mac's
>flashing icon, but the flashing icon idea sounds cooler. The problem is, 
>what if you've ran things from a shell instead of from the GUI/Workbench?
>There won't be an icon to flash. Oh well, we can always used the
>animated pointer trick.
>
>
>(DisplayBeep() is very annoying, it's meant that way to get your
>attention. It flashes the entire screen (on my screen colors) yellow/bright
>white for a period of atleast a second.  DisplayBeep can be patched to
>use a sample (like a beep, siren, etc)

The Mac Notification Manager can optionally, in addition to flashing the
icon, play an arbitarary sound and/or display an alert box.  It also puts a
little diamond next to the entry in the Application menu of the process that
wants your attention, so you know where to go to respond.

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