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From: cks@radio.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Only 31 Intuiclasses? (was One more suggestion...)
Message-ID: <1032@radio.toronto.edu>
Date: 29 Feb 88 08:13:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: radio.1032
Posted: Mon Feb 29 03:13:14 1988
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In article <4531@garfield.UUCP> john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell) writes:
...
> Is it actually necessary to impose a limit of distinct bit positions? For the
> window IDCMPFlags I can see, but isn't all Intuimessage processing done with
> 
> case CLASS1:
> case CLASS2:
> 
> etc which would work just as well with 1,2,3,4... as with 1,2,4,8...?

 The problem is things like ModifyIDCMP() and NewWindow structures, to
which you supply OR-ed together flags. In addition, the application
I'm working on now uses message masks to decide what routine to
dispatch a given message to, and Intuition presumably uses the mask
internally to decide whether to send a window a given event. You might
be able to do it for new message classes, but it would probably take
too much effort to be really useful.

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