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| Date: | 03 Feb 2001 at 13:20:32 |
| Subject: | Re: Custom screens (was: Re: Can someone look at this code?) |
Hi Allan,
> Perhaps there's some use for them. But I think they're only present to
> offer backward compatibility, as kick 1.3 didn't have public screens.
I think you're right, in the RKM there is a note saying that until v37 he only public screen was the workbench one and all others were custom so I think this was an improvement in the OS.
> hmm... I'd like to have my reminder program popup messages on the front
> most screen, even if this is a game that I'm currently playing. I could
> also imagine that I'd like to have 'Lupe' running ontop of the game, to
> look closer at some gfx details. Or perhaps Clock, if I need to keep
> track of time while playing etc. etc.
>
> Under some circumstances you may want to make your screen custom for
> speed reasons, but then you could have it as an option for the user.
> Personally I'd often prefer to trade the faster scrolling away for
> the ability to open a shell on the screen :-)
Whoa! I haven't thought to that, mmm..., cool, a clock on the game screen, now I think it was a good idea having both a direct-access and a WPA8() gfx routines. See ya
Gabriele
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