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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FixReq -- a FIX for NAUGHTY PROGRAMS that don't set pr_WindowPtr
Message-ID: <3292@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 89 20:40:05 GMT
References: <3770@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA
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In article <3770@crash.cts.com> billk@pnet01.cts.com (Bill W. Kelly) writes:
)ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:

)>>FixReq solves this problem by patching AutoRequest() to substitute
)>>IntuitionBase->ib_ActiveWindow in place of whatever window pointer was passed
)>>to AutoRequest().

)>	JimM will probably toast you for this.

)Oh, come on.  First of all, AutoRequest() (or: BuildSysRequest()) doesn't
)put up a requester in the _window_ you give it, but in the windows' screen!
)Now, the screen could be closed while the AutoRequest() is being displayed
)on it, but it hasn't happened in the eighteen months I've been using it.

A Toast:
    Here's to all Empirical Programmers; may their work never inhabit my disks.

Eighteen whole months.  That proves it, eh?  Where did you say you worked?

Note that if the window is closed, window->WScreen is a technique we
call "Indirection through Free Memory."  Bryce has a little program, memmung,
that you ought to try.

)Share and enjoy.

I'll drink to that ...  ACk!  Poison! ...

)Bill W. Kelly                                         billk@pnet01.cts.com

	jimm
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