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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter DaSilva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Wish List
Message-ID: <186@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Jun-87 08:44:41 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 16 08:44:41 1987
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Summary: I mean a *global* unattended mode.

Bryce Nesbitt writes:
> 
> > 8) There should be an unettended mode, where all requestors automatically
> > return failure.
> 
> Already IS!!!  Here's the code to turn it on:

That does it for a process. Thanks... I missed that. I guess I should read
the manuals more thouroughly. However, that code would have to be in all
programs, right? So you couldn't call existing software (like, frex, ARC)?

> > 5) Sizing and dragging windows shouldn't lock layers, instead they should
> > use sprites to indicate the corners (a-la the HP Integral).
> 
> !! YES !!.  If this was done...

Wow. Support. I'll have to be nastier: I was expecting flames :->

> > 6) Allow an image to underly the Workbench, ala the Xerox Star's "Mount Fuji".
> 
> The workbench is just a backdrop window.

I know that already.

I would expect that just patching into the workbench window would be a bad
idea, because disk icons would trash great holes in it when you moved them.
Also, workbench windows are simple-refresh, so your mount fuji would decay
pretty fast if you didn't modify workbench. Adding another backdrop window
wouldn't help, 'cos then you woiuldn't be able to find your disk icons.

> ( REMEMBER: If you use a 1.2 only function, open Intuition with library
>   verion 33, and die gracefully if not available)

Or open with an older version, and check the intuition version before
calling the function... you should definitely do this if you're writing
a general purpose module that may not be opening Intuition itself.