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From: 6600pete@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (GurgleKat [Pete Gontier])
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Subject: Re: Remember Black Box?
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Date: 7 Mar 90 06:34:29 GMT
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> I hope that Andrew has included all of these as a single init --
> otherwise some of the advantages of black box (1 init, less system
> interrupts) will be lost.

Well, I suppose you're entitled to that opinion. :-) But there are
advantages to having separate INITs. One is that when the beta period
is over, I won't be using Functionality, since QuicKeys takes care of
that for me and I would like to have some conceptual unity. (I know, that
and INITs don't mix. Tough cookies.) And really, as far "less system
interrupts" goes, there isn't really much to that unless the "interrupts"
(which I will take to mean "interruptions" rather than the more technical
term) involve disk i/o; most of them don't.

> Plus I would hope the following might be
> included: clicking on an app's icon while in that app does not generate
> an out of memory message;

Well, that sounds like a bug, and it's probably been fixed. I will try and
check it for you.

> the ability to have windows associated with a
> running app disappear while in another app -- clicking on that app makes
> them reappear

Wait for System 7.0. That will be in the Apple menu. Or at least beta
MultiFinders I have seen exhibit that feature. It's called "Put Away"...

> ability to replace an app in the icon dock without having
> the others "move up" so that new ones added to the dock appear at the
> bottom of the list.

Another thing I will have to check for you. Prod me with some mail so
that I will remember to report my findings.

> Screen blanking which does not stop file transfers, background printing,
> etc...

Sunset doesn't fight with America Online's file transfers that I've noticed,
but it will always be possible for one of its modules to do so (unwisely, and
only as the result of a third party's indiscretion). I always wondered why
After Dark didn't lock event handling into its INIT, but...

> removal of the black box config icon so that another app may be loaded
> (make it a cdev).

Hmmm. Not quite sure what you mean, here. There isn't a slot taken up by
a configuration button, if that's what you mean.
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