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From: tagreen@lothario.ucs.indiana.edu (Todd Green)
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Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
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>>??????  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).

I believe you are talking about two different icons.  The original
poster is refering to the sicn (ics?) that gets grayed when you hide
an application and not the icon (icl?) itself.  Which _does_ have alot
to due with whether or not the app is hidden (but still running).

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 ;).

Todd

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