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From: matija@amiga.ifi.unizh.ch (Matija Milostnik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,adsp.sw
Subject: Re: "Busy" pointer
Summary: What about a standard busy Pointer
Keywords: Busy pointer, new function suggestion
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.164849.3171@ifi.unizh.ch>
Date: 27 Jun 91 16:48:49 GMT
References: <1991Jun26.030833.9974@crash.cts.com> <22702@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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In article <22702@cbmvax.commodore.com> peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna) writes:
>In article <1991Jun26.030833.9974@crash.cts.com> bruceg@crash.cts.com (Bruce Geerdes) writes:
>>What's the easiest way to get the "busy" pointer to come up?  The RKM's 
[..]
>
>The ROM busy pointer is in Workbench, the application.  There is no
>system-integrated way to bring up the same pointer from ROM.  For now,
>it's best just to clone the pointer imagery.

This is my suggestion 
Add in intuition two new functions. 
- SetBusyPointer(Window,Mask)
  Mask would be a mask of desired IDCMP mesagges the user want to hear.
  Intuition would AND the incoming messagaes with Mask and if the result
  is NOT zero forword it to the window, else it would ReplyMsg.
- ClearBusyPointer(Window) 
  Bussinse as usual.

>Peter Cherna, Operating Systems Development Group, Commodore-Amiga, Inc.

Bye
 Matija


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