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From: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Need Help w/String Gadgets
Message-ID: <401@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Jun-86 08:37:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.401
Posted: Fri Jun 13 08:37:11 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Jun-86 06:53:49 EDT
References: <431@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU> <1285@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Reply-To: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 51
Keywords: String Gadgets, Requesters
Summary: Reply to RJ

In article <1285@amiga.amiga.UUCP> rj@amiga.UUCP (Robert J. Mical) writes:
>All of the answers to your questions can be found in the
>Intuition manual published jointly by Addison-Wesley and 
>Commodore-Amiga.
>
>You *must* read the Intuition manual.  I am surprised that you've gotten
>as far as you have without it!  Requesters, string gadgets, SpecialInfo,
>all this stuff is explained in great detail in the Intuition manual.
>
>Accept no cheap substitutes.  Get the Addison-Wesley version of the
>Intuition manual, which was written by me (the creator of Intuition)
>and Susan Deyl, and proofed by Amiga people.  It will make your
>life a lot easier, not just with Inutition but with the entire Amiga
>System Kernel, because Intuition's relationship to the system on the
>whole is well-described in this book.
>

I wouldn't "self-congratulate" yourself that much RJ, I think Dan did
read the Intuition manual from reading his message.  I too had some
difficulty with the chapter on requesters.

The manual is pretty good though, I must say - you had a lot of difficult
(and probably new to most people) material to cover, and for the most part
it's not hard to follow.  Some of the programming examples are AWFUL in it
though.  Very sloppy.

FYI - I've cursed and grumbled at Intuition, but overall, it's a very
impressive piece of software.  CONGRATULATIONS.  My two recurring gripes are:

	It's unclear who is in charge of borders at any time.
		This makes rendering into windows a constant battle.
		Yes, I know, there's the wonderful GIMMEZEROZERO
		windows - but they're abysmally slow and are memory
		hogs.

	Requesters go somewhat against the grain of multi-tasking.
		There's no reason why other things must be BLOCKED
		while they're around.  I'm glad this is remedied in
		1.2, although I won't be using 1.2 routines for my
		work.

Question - is there a quick way to update the screen (window) title
without using SetWindowTitle() because I want to use it for status
info which changes a lot, and using SetWindowTitle causes it to flash,
splutter, and be basically very objectionable.  Any ideas would be
appreciated.


	Paul Higginbottom.

Disclaimer: I do not work for Commodore and my opinions are at least my own.