Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dalcs!aucs!850347s
From: 850347s@aucs.UUCP (Hume Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: IDCMP LONELYMESSAGE
Keywords: IDCMP LONELYMESSAGE intertask stuff
Message-ID: <1362@aucs.UUCP>
Date: 12 Nov 88 19:36:18 GMT
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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I'm trying to make a program that will start another task that adjusts
the screen colours (yes that seems a bit much to start another task for -
just trust me :-).  The point is: I need, of cpurse, to know when this
task ends; and I think the easy way would be to have it send a message.
And the easiest way to deal with that message would be through the IDCMP
of the main window - that way there's only one port to muck with.
But I'll need a message to send...
   There's a macro in the intuition/intuition.h header LONELYMESSAGE
in the MessageClass macro setion that isn't documented anywhere.
Was this provided for this sort of application? would it be safe
(portable/ no conflicts/ etc) to use it as a class and make up a code?
Or do you have a better suggestion that can be implemente in less
than 1000 :-) lines?