Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac
From: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Communicating with Desk Accessories
Summary: memory disappears with my own da's
Message-ID: <507@electro.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 89 19:09:18 GMT
References: <8660@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Organization: Electrohome Ltd., Kitchener, ON
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since this topic has come up, there's something that i've always wanted to
know about desk accessories:

lets imagine that you are in low resolution, and an accessory was loaded at
boot up time.

what happens to this accessory when you switch resolution. what i've been
able to trace myself is that the accessory will get an AC_CLOSE message,
but what is it supposed to do with that??

the reason why i'm asking is that only the accessories that i've written
end up eating memory everytime you switch resolutions. the memory that is
eaten is equivalent to the size of the accessory! (not a good situation to
say the least).

or is there anything special that has to be done at startup so that this
memory eating problem doesn't happen??

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Ignac A. Kolenko (The Ig)          watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac      

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