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- Short: The MUI requester improver
- Author: Matthias.Bethke@stud.uni-erlangen.de
- Uploader: Matthias.Bethke@stud.uni-erlangen.de
- Type: util/cdity
- Version: 1.5
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- If you like ARQ's functionality but find it a little old-fashioned,
- have a look at this! It's a MUIfied rewrite with similar features
- (new imagery, ARexx support, keyboard control etc.) and some new ones.
-
- New since V1.4:
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- V1.5b 17-Apr-98 - although it doesn't show very much, V1.5b is a
- major rewrite! Trying to patch other
- intuition.library requester functions and add
- some features I found myself adding hacks and
- kludges to keep MRQ's main function a drop-in
- replacement for EasyRequestArgs(). No good!
- Now all the actual patch does is to allocate a
- message with some space to hold various data that
- needs to be kept while a requester is open. This
- it sends to MRQ's message port and just waits for
- a reply; the main MRQ process handles everything
- else. This makes for much better decoupling of
- MRQ and the process (now it may even be a simple
- task) calling EasyRequestArgs() than before.
- - drastically reduced stack usage (the patch only
- calls Exec now!), so no stack extension code
- needed any more.
- - also got a smaller executable again :-)
- - Implemented SINGLEIMB tooltype
-
- V1.5 20-Apr-98 - the ARexx soundplayer message isn't dispatched
- until all the GUI work is done and the window
- opened. Seem much better on slow machines and
- with player demons running at high priority.
- - Bugfix: race condition fixed in the ARexx code.
- Not a real problem as soundplayers are not likely
- to close their ports unexpectedly, but anyway...
-