Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!rochester!udel!burdvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!cadovax!gryphon!jdow From: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: PopCLI Fade Message-ID: <1916@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 15:23:19 EDT Article-I.D.: gryphon.1916 Posted: Thu Oct 15 15:23:19 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 16:41:33 EDT References: <1852@gryphon.CTS.COM> <106@rpicsb8> <4211@well.UUCP> Reply-To: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow) Organization: Wizardess Designs Lines: 35 Keywords: Popcli fade In article <4211@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes: >In article <106@rpicsb8> guilford@csv.rpi.edu (Jim Guilford) writes: >>In article <1852@gryphon.CTS.COM> bilbo@pnet02.CTS.COM (Bill Daggett) writes: >>>I've been using PopCLI for some time and am curious to know if it would be >>>possible for the screen to fade rather then pop? [ ... ] > This won't be a very pretty fade, but it'll fade. And it wasn't all >that hard, either. However, this code fragment does not address the problem >of what happens if a program is playing with the ViewPort's colors, too. >However, there are a multitude of ways around this, none of which are all >*that* messy. As a matter of fact this can be used to advantage. you can use successive GetRGB's to determine if your settings have been altered. If they have then the program is active and some emergency restorative measures are inorder. (At best just keep hands off.) In fact if you do periodic GetRGB's while waiting for the inputevent timeout you can use that to reset the timeout as well as an actual input event. it is a way of detecting screen activity. What's really needed for Popcli and ScreenBlanker (cheath's) is a method for detecting some common piece of screen activity and preventing the screenblanking action whenever the screen is used as well as whenever the input is active. Suggestions anyone? -- <@_@> BIX:jdow INTERNET:jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM UUCP:{akgua, hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, ihnp4, nosc}!crash!gryphon!jdow Remember - A bird in the hand often leaves a sticky deposit. Perhaps it was better you left it in the bush with the other one.