Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Mutual Exclude Gadgets Keywords: Gadgets Message-ID: <962@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 29 Dec 89 06:09:19 GMT Lines: 39 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <22034@usc.edu>, news@usc.edu (USENET News) writes: >From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) >Path: pollux.usc.edu!papa > >Only one comment, and then I'm on to another subject. Fine by me. I've pretty much said my piece, except to comemnt on this. > The following is >quoted verbatim from an article in Amigamail (which all developers get as >part of the developer's fee), by Peter Cherna of Commodore: > >"Even in the latest release of the system, V1.3, mutual exclusion of gadgets >has not been implemented. In fact, if Commodore-Amiga ever does provide >system support for the mutual exclusion of gadgets, the method used may well >be different from the method outlined in the Intuition Reference Manual". > >So, you've been warned. If you read that as "I can use MutualExclude for >my own purposes", be my guest. I can bet, your program will likely break. No, I wouldn't read it that way. I would read it as being a warning to not use the field. Unfortunately, my 'complete set' of Amigamails goes up to #14 (lead article, 'The Amiga Virus', by Bill Koester). I have not received further issues as yet. The article in question is not included. This brings up the following comments: 1. Not everyone who programs, gets Amigamail, or is even aware of it. 2. It's a little late in the game to say it might be changed in 1.4 -larry -- " All I ask of my body is that it carry around my head." - Thomas Alva Edison - +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+