Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!garfield!john13
From: john13@garfield.MUN.EDU (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: WB 1.4
Message-ID: <5062@garfield.MUN.EDU>
Date: 6 Jan 89 06:49:57 GMT
References: <277@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
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Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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In article <277@ubc-cs.UUCP> coatta@grads.cs.ubc.ca (Terry Coatta) writes:
]Jim Mackraz writes:
]
]>PS: And in case you haven't heard, programs using the private part 
]>of IntuitionBase will neither compile nor work under V1.4.  Sympathy 
]>in this area will be very hard to get out from me.

I hope that when you take away access to structure parts that users may
arguably have a need to get at, a method is provided for getting at them
legally.

For instance, a game like FirePower which sometimes messes with the
MouseLimits, needs a legitimate way to tinker with them. If IntuitionBase
no longer has the old fields for them, I hope there are calls like
Get/SetMouseLimits so that new versions of such programs can be released.
(Perhaps some fields like this will migrate into the Screen structure?)

John
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