Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!att!poseidon!ech
From: ech@poseidon.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Low Memory Globals, a summary
Message-ID: <597@poseidon.ATT.COM>
Date: 22 Nov 88 16:16:45 GMT
References: <26867@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lincroft, NJ
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From article <26867@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, by oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster):
> From darin@apple.com Wed Nov  2 20:35:44 1988
> JGNEFilter is definitely unecessary. Maybe you can be more specific what you're
> doing with it.

> PaintWhite is probably a bad idea. Why are you using it?

Given the dictum "no tail patches," jGNEFilter provides the means to
get control of the processor under "stable" conditions and to inject
events.  While I don't need either of those for applications I write,
I DO need them for applications didn't write and for system software.
It isn't ONLY Apple that writes system-level software, even Darin
used to live near Chicago...

As for PaintWhite, if the background of what's revealed is anything but
white, the "flash" can be very distracting.  I wouldn't use paintWhite
if the Window Manager did "the right thing", i.e. "paint background
pattern" rather than "paint white."

=Ned Horvath=