Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!caip!cbmvax!higgin From: higgin@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: Question on Intuition Screens and Windows Message-ID: <315@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Date: Sun, 1-Jun-86 21:59:31 EDT Article-I.D.: cbmvax.315 Posted: Sun Jun 1 21:59:31 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 3-Jun-86 23:36:20 EDT References: <8605311838.AA02246@pavepaws> Reply-To: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 23 In article <8605311838.AA02246@pavepaws> dillon@PAVEPAWS.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes: > I have a program which spawns other processes (via CreatProc). My >question is simply: > > If the master process creates an intuition screen, can the >subprocesses create windows in this new screen? It seems to work, sorta >(the Amiga crashes when I try to close everything up)... I would like to >know whether it's illegal to do in Intution (and if it isn't, I know the >problem lies somewhere in my code) > > Thanks, > > -Matt Intuition doesn't know anything about the processes controlling screens and windows (I don't believe) so it should be perfectly legal for processes to use the same screen, each put windows on it, etc. I am doing this without any problem. Regards, Paul Higginbottom Disclaimer: I do not work for Commodore, and my opinions are at least my own.