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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Contents of windows
Message-ID: <4036@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 30 Apr 89 16:45:57 GMT
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Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <8904281155.AA02450@expire.lcs.mit.edu>, rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU writes:
>     That's an interesting comparison, since the Amiga windowing system does
>     guarantee a backing-store for all windows. If Intuition can do it, why
>     not X?

> How does Intuition do it?  [silly suggestions]

What it means is that if you open windows forever eventually OpenWindow
will return an error code instead of a (struct Window *), or a resize event
will fail, or you'll find that you can't move a window. Generally I find that
LoadSeg has failed first.

If rendering is time-consuming it's nice to know that some dodo won't zap
your Mandelbrot in mid-compute.

[confusion about NeWS]

I was confused by a discussion about applications running in the Server.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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