Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ucbvax!jade!eris!mwm From: mwm@eris.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Font & window questions Message-ID: <2783@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Thu, 12-Mar-87 18:07:08 EST Article-I.D.: jade.2783 Posted: Thu Mar 12 18:07:08 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 14-Mar-87 06:45:24 EST References: <8703120319.AA03253@ingres.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (No one lives forever.) Meyer) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 33 In article <8703120319.AA03253@ingres.Berkeley.EDU> hatcher@INGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Doug Merritt) writes: >2) It occurred to me that it would be nice to have windows on top of >arbitrary screens, like putting a clock on top of the screen used by vt100. >I haven't found a way to do this, and I suspect that this shows that there >is something fundemental about windows and screens that I don't understand. Keeping the window on top of a screen is easy - you just call window-to-front at regular intervals (not to often, or the redraws will drive you batty!). Similar tricks can be done with screens if you put it in it's own screen. Someone has a clock in a sprite; that should also stay on top of everything. When I start working on my menu-bar clock again (want to put the 1-minute load average in; thanx to whoever it was that posted that!), I'm going to poke at putting it in a sprite. To prevent problems with POPCLI & screen blanking, I may put screen blanking into it also. When the screen goes black, the clock will start drifting around the screen randomly (somewhere I've got a screen-blanker that does that). What gets done for the CLI popping part of POPCLI is unclear. Of course, if someone comes up with a program that does all this before I get around to looking at it, I'd appreciate a copy!