Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!dalcs!garfield!john13
From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dealing with lots of messages (and dealing _selectively_)
Keywords: messages IDCMP MOUSEMOVE
Message-ID: <4376@garfield.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 88 19:38:16 GMT
References: <4346@garfield.UUCP> <3094@cbmvax.UUCP> <1983@amiga.amiga.UUCP> <525@nuchat.UUCP>
Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
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Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's
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In article <525@nuchat.UUCP> peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <1983@amiga.amiga.UUCP>, jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes:
>> In article <3094@cbmvax.UUCP> steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats) writes:
>> >In article <4346@garfield.UUCP> john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell) writes:
>> >> [ good idea number 1 ] -John
>> > [ interesting idea number 2 ] -Steve
>> [ kludge #3 ] Jim
>Your idea, I'm sorry to say, is a kludge.

Interesting that neither of the other 2 referenced articles have gotten here
yet.

>BUT, while we're talking about enhancements for 1.4(?), how about just making
>MOUSEMOVE work like INTUITICKS... 

I would have to say no, since there may be times when it's desirable to have
very fine reading of the mouse, even if it does lead to long lag times. Not
often, but most other cases where this is a factor involve simple actions
like rubberbanding where the workarounds like the one I proposed are no more
than 1 or 2 lines.

Speaking of INTUITICKS, when I installed timer routines from Ali Ozer in a
program that processed them, they stopped coming. Anyone know why? I didn't
do anything other than set up requests to be signalled N times a second.

ModifyIDCMP is turning out to be quite useful. I would recommend that anyone
writing intui-message controlled programs test out all sorts of weird
combinations (like activating your window with right button down so you
get a MENUUP before MENUDOWN) and mask out ones you don't want to see at
certain times. Aside from the RMB messages I just mentioned I used 'udlr'
vanillakeys to tweak positioning of a rubberbanded box; it looks messy if you
change the offsets while it is trying to erase itself.

John
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