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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Contents of windows
Message-ID: <8905021233.AA00261@expire.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 2 May 89 12:33:21 GMT
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    The decision to force client programs to support disclose events is as much
    a policy decision as the decision to force the server to retain obscured
    bitmaps.

Agreed.  I wasn't really trying to imply otherwise.  X has chosen one, the
Amiga has chosen another.  I don't think there are cut-and-dried arguments
on either side.

    The Amiga deals with this problem with what are called 'alerts'. An alert
    is implemented with a small dedicated bitmap, just big enough to allow the
    system to open a standard sized 'window' and ask a yes/no question.

This is kind of imposing on someone's GUI style guide, isn't it ...