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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: inputs from many windows.
Keywords: windows, messages, IDCMP, stupid!
Message-ID: <3369@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 30 Jan 89 01:30:37 GMT
References: <1918@pur-phy> <3358@sugar.uu.net> <5844@cbmvax.UUCP>
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <5844@cbmvax.UUCP>, jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
> In article <3358@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >			while(msg = GetMsg(w->UserPort->mp_SigBits)) {
> 	Now Peter, you know better than that!  :-)	^^^^^^^^^^

Yeh, what a bozo. "while(msg = GetMsg(w->UserPort))..."

> >Browser 1.4 and 1.5 had one IDCMP shared between all the windows, and used
> >CLoseWindowSafely(). Unfortunately, it wasn't safe. So 1.6 has gone back to
> >one IDCMP per window.

> 	What was unsafe about it?

I don't know, but under heavy use I got Gurus.
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva  `-_-'  Hackercorp.
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