Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ubvax!vsi1!apple!casseres
From: casseres@Apple.COM (David Casseres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Next and the competition
Message-ID: <361@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 23 Dec 88 18:28:39 GMT
References: <29866@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <5567@cbmvax.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <5567@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:

>Aargh!! No, no!  Please don't say that this system doesn't support "SMART" 
>refresh windows!  This is supposed to be a "real" computer with lots of
>memory.  If the application doesn't know how to refresh a window, it
>shouldn't have to.  Let the OS handle all aspects of a window.  Just cause
>the Mac doesn't (or didn't, maybe it does now?) handle such things doesn't
>mean the rest of the world should stay so barbaric.  

Gee, just what are "all" aspects of a window?  Should the OS also do the
selection and highlighting of objects in the window when the user clicks
the mouse?  Maybe it should guess what the application wants to draw in
the window, and do the drawing?  After all, refreshing a window does in-
volve drawing its content.  Or maybe you mean that refreshing should only
be done by saving the bits of the window's current image, then restoring
them when a refresh is needed.  Too bad if the content of the window wanted
to change before the refresh.

Aarch to you too, and happy holidays!
David Casseres