Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:4753 comp.sys.mac.system:7825 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!think.com!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu!agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu!GAYNOR From: gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future) Message-ID: <1991Jun27.195750.29163@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu> Date: 27 Jun 91 19:57:50 GMT References: <1991Jun27.033737.19606@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Jun27.041627.29718@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jun27.155751.28356@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu>,<1991Jun27.161530.14821@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu (Usenet news) Reply-To: gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu Organization: Ohio Cooperative Extension Service Lines: 30 Nntp-Posting-Host: agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu In article <1991Jun27.161530.14821@midway.uchicago.edu>, jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john cavallino) writes: >?????? The grayed icon is purely user-interface feedback, to let you know >that the application is running but hidden. It hasn't anything at all to >do with re-entrancy. Correct, to an extent. The grayed icon is to show that the program is running (whether or not the app is hidden makes no difference). And you're right, the grayed icon doesn't have anything to directly do with re-entrancy. It's visual feedback, to show the user that the program is already running and that (here's the kicker) -because- it's already running, you can't run it again. Get it? It's visual feedback that the program can't be run, -because it's already running-. On the Amiga WorkBench or in MS Windows, the icon of a running app undergoes no change. Why? Because apps are re-entrant there. I can have the same application running two or three time if I like. Dumb Personal Experience: the time I forgot I was in a Windows DOS shell and re-ran Windows. Couldn't for the life of me figure out why it was so much slower than normal till I quit the second session of Windows to discover I still had another session. Oops... --- Jim Gaynor - AgVAX System Manager - Academic Computing - Ohio State University VMS: UNIX: Disclaimer : All opinions expressed here are mine and only mine. So there! Witty Quote: "Shoot him now! Shoot him now!" - Daffy Duck, "Rabbit Seasonings"