Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!unido!rmi!kkaempf
From: kkaempf@rmi.UUCP (Klaus Kaempf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Some ideas for KS/WB 1.3
Message-ID: <856@rmi.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 88 15:38:18 GMT
Reply-To: kkaempf@rmi.UUCP
Organization: RMI Net, Aachen, W.Germany
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I hope it's not too late for the following ...

- REPEATGADGET: An additional gadget flag that will result
  in several "GADGETDOWN"-messages, as long, as the user
  keeps the left mouse button pressed, then a single
  "GADGETUP". This can easily be implemented even now, but
  it would be nicer to have it in the ROMs. (Don't repeat
  a second time until replied, use KeyRptDelay/KeyRptSpeed.)

- AmigaDOS/NFS: Provide an official way of dismounting
  AmigaDOS-devices. This way you could finally use the
  "disk.resource"'s "AllocUnit()", even after the DOS is up
  & running, for example to implement a new device that uses
  "GCR" instead of "MFM" and then use it for a particular
  disk unit. Right now the "trackdisk.device" cannot
  "FreeUnit()", because the DOS won't ever "CloseDevice()".

- Make "MODE_OLDFILE" read-only, even if this will certainly
  break lots of programs. It is the only function holding a
  shared read-lock on a file, that can be written to! (Try
  it yourself: several applications can open a single file
  with READONLY and ALL OF THEM can write to it at the same
  time!) This is probably a holdover from pre-1.2 when there
  was no "MODE_READWRITE". 1.3 should enforce the synonym
  "MODE_READONLY"!

- Fix the "TD_REMCHANGEINT"-bug. Right now it uses the same
  node-structure for both IORequest-queueing and linking the
  chain. So the list is already destroyed, if the
  device-handler tries to execute the REMOVE-macro.

- European PAL-machines sometimes behave like NTSC-versions
  in providing only 200 lines (non-interlaced). This bug
  occurs once in about 80 reboot-cycles. (BTW: We'll ALWAYS
  have to cope with this "double-mouse" at line ~223).

Take your time and make 1.3 the best OS ever!

!ralph

       Ralph Babel | sys64824
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