Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!acf4!slavin
From: slavin@acf4.UUCP (Scott Slavin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GEM PROGRAMMING
Message-ID: <12530006@acf4.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 88 20:10:00 GMT
References: <2735@homxc.UUCP>
Organization: New York University
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>I have a GEM programming question.
>How do I prevent text that I'm writing to a window from
>overwriting a dropdown menu or a dialog box?
>Should I use "clipping rectangles", and if so,
>how do I get the size of the clipping rectangle?

>Thanks,
>Jonathan Nagy

I didn't think it was possible to have an event waiting (ie. the window
coming down) and have output to the screen at the same time.  If your
talking about the menu overwriting the window text, that is also
impossible because the AES saves all the screen under the menu that is
coming down.  As for dialog boxes, your best bet to to open a window
underneath it, and when the dialog box is gone do a window redraw from
the message event that will be waiting.

Scott Slavin
slavin@acf4.nyu.edu
slavin@miswnet