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Article 203 of comp.sys.acorn:
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From: spocky@acsys.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: tasks which leave desktop and return
Keywords: desktop, tasks
Message-ID: <cP2c21w164w@acsys.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 91 07:37:35 GMT
References: <1991Apr23.135553.17810@newcastle.ac.uk>
Organization: Acsys, Berlin Germany, first ACORN BBS in Berlin
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J.W.Harley@newcastle.ac.uk (Jon Harley) writes:
> I've seen a couple of desktop apps which take over the whole screen while
> they're active (ie the iconbar icon has been clicked), then return to the
> desktop afterwards without the "Press SPACE or click mouse to return to
> desktop" message. The apps in question were a home accounts program and
> !StrongEd, which you want to stay resident while you're not using them.
>
> I'm trying to do this for some PD software I'm writing - how is it done?
> I've tried to do it with a second bank of vdu ram but with no success.
>
You ask for a clean termination?
I think I can help you!
I find this Article in the Risc User Magazine December 1989:
CLEAN TERMINATION
If you run a non Wimp program from the
Desktop, you will get the following message
when it terminates: 'Press SPACE or click
mouse to continue'. To avoid this add the line:
SYS "Wimp_CommandWindow",-1
to the end of the program, ensuring that no
text or graphics output can occur after this statement has been
executed. A program
which is then run from the Desktop will
return you to the Desktop as soon as the
program terminates. Note, however, that if
such a program is run directly from a Basic
language environment, you will be left in a
VDU 5 state, and the program should execute
VDU 4 to return to normal cursor operation.