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From: rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
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Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
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Date: 27 Jun 91 23:54:11 GMT
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In article <1991Jun27.232602.22983@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> tagreen@lothario.ucs.indiana.edu (Todd Green) 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).
>
>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 ;).

  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)

>Todd
>
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