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From: DMiddleton@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: re: Personal Pascal GEM question
Message-ID: <880526144826.794202@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA>
Date: 26 May 88 14:48:00 GMT
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If you do a dialog, the system puts back what it thinks should be under
the dialog box.  in personal pascal.  I have found this and have
resolved the problem using the PP Scrn_Save and Scrn_Restr functions.
Hide your mouse, snap a copy of the screen, do the dialog, begin update,
restore screen, end update, show mouse.

This works very well, but I think it is a feature, rather than a bug.
On mono, one gets a grey desktop, but this solution will take care of
the problem.  I think it is legit though, since alerts warn of not
exceeding 25% of the screen size (it saves it?)  so if your doing alerts
it is just a fancy way of speeding up the process of dialogs.

Don Middleton, Honeywell Bull, Toronto

DMiddleton%pco -at BCO-Multics