Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!haven!rutgers!gauss.rutgers.edu!math.rutgers.edu!aberg From: aberg@math.rutgers.edu (Hans Aberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: WingZ Keywords: spreadsheet, presentation manager, hypertext, slow Message-ID: Date: 27 Apr 89 14:36:06 GMT References: <598@eutrc3.UUCP> <1774@ccnysci.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 20 >(Would it be a stupid idea to BitCopy the area where the dialogue box >will apear into an array, then display the dialogue box, remove it when >done and BitCopy the array back to the window? Would have saved me >another 2 minutes) >>Not to argue with the other points (I don't have WingZ), but this is definitely >>a Terrible Bad Awful Idea, and the Apple Thought Police will lock you up if >>you do this. The Finder, and the earlier systems actually work like this: By temporarily saving the portion where a dialog box or or menu pops up, and then copying it back again. In a multitasking environment this does not work, because some other application may decide to change the graphics in the area temporarily saved. This is in fact reason to why all processes used to start hanging when pressing the mouse button in earlier systems. Hans Aberg, Mathematics aberg@math.rutgers.edu