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From: shimoda@infohh.rmi.de (Markus Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: inputs from many windows
Message-ID: <491@infohh.rmi.de>
Date: 3 Feb 89 18:49:55 GMT
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Reply-To: shimoda@infohh.rmi.de (Markus Schmidt)
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>IDCMPs means separate message ports.  Separate ports means separate signal
>bits.  And you can only have 32 sigbits, right (only 32 bits in a long)?
>That would imply to me that you can have, at the most, 32 open windows in
>your task, if you use a separate IDCMP for each window.
>
Not quite right. The OS reserves 16 Signals for internal use, so you
only have 16 for yourself.


Shimoda