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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Help on ModifyIDCMP()
Message-ID: <46314@sun.uucp>
Date: 21 Mar 88 18:07:21 GMT
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In article <2108@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> (Kenneth Chiu) writes:
>If you mean one port for several windows, you can do this by attaching your
>own port before a call to OpenWindow() or ModifyIDCMP().

Have you tried this? In the Intuition Manual the 'blessed' way of opening
a window without an IDCMP port is to open it with NULL IDCMP Flags, then 
copy the port to it's UserPort area and use ModifyIDCMP() to enable the
desired events. 

As for an IDCMP port standing in space, that would be just a message port.
And Intuition wouldn't send you IDCMP messages to it because it only collects
those messages from windows. If one is really looking to open a "blank" 
screen to play with but you still want messages. Then  open a full size 
borderless backdrop window and use it's IDCMP port.



--Chuck McManis
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