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Subject: Re: problems with the amiga user interface...
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Date: Thu, 12-Mar-87 11:57:09 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 12 11:57:09 1987
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ali@rocky.UUCP (Ali Ozer) wrote in article <175@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>:
>You need to set up a process in front of intuition (ie, priority 21, say)

Intuition is at prio 50, you'll have to be at 51 or more.  That's where
a lot of people sit, I suspect (popcli, grabbit, funkeys, encore etc),
so pick some random value above that.

Make sure you pass along what you don't need.

>in a recent BADGE meeting Jim Mackraz ... was actually using a library
>that allows various tasks who want to hook event handlers in front of
>Intuition to interact gracefully rather than having them fight over who
>is using F1 for what.

Amen.  Let's hope he makes this thing PD, so we can avoid the Mess-DOS
"Terminate and Stay Ready" syndrome.

(no, load me first!  No, load me first! ...)

Supposedly, C-A was going to publish a spec for developers saying:
"here is the protocol that you should use when developing hot key
programs so you don't step all over each other."  Like everything
else, time and manpower were not on their side.  Maybe this is what
Jim is coming out with.

>Another program we saw was one that allowed the user to switch between
>windows by just the touch of a key --- it allowed you to activate, in
>sequence, all the windows in the current screen. 

Charlie Heath (of Microsmiths) has a package called FunKeys that does this.
It comes with his FastFonts program (along with a screenblanker).  I
use them all the time - they work great.  Nice fast text generation,
alternate workbench fonts, hot keys and tiny screenblanker.  Worth the
price (this is an endorsement, I guess).

..Bob
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Bob Page,  U of Lowell CS Dept.      ulowell!page,  page@ulowell.CSNET