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From: Wolfgang Zweygart <wz@echo.chem.TU-Berlin.DE>
Subject: Re: GEM apps, in general
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 94 15:54:40 MESZ
In-Reply-To: <m0qRFh5-0000daC@sdf.lonestar.org>; from "Evan K. Langlois" at Jul 22, 94 3:11 am
Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]
Precedence: bulk
Hi out there in gem-list world...
> ========================================================================
> I think you have to go visit them, and slap them real hard with the
> guidelines for writing multitasking-ready GEM applications.
> ========================================================================
>
> 1 - No Polling
yes...
> 2 - No vector grabbing!
yes too!
> 3 - All graphics in windows (including window 0 with proper wind_set)
yes again.
> 4 - Always walk rectangles
yes.
> 5 - Don't assume screen or memory formats.
yuppp.-
> 6 - Free unused memory
yes. If you have a problem use memdebug, works great.
> 9 - No form_do() or other locking calls.
no! form_do is an OS call. I use OS calls... Maybe it has to be replaced,
but I will not use workarounds or super-special libs for that...
> An iconifyable window is best.
hihi...
Bye Wolfgang
wz@echo.chem.tu-berlin.de
wz2@pauli-p2.physik.uni-stuttgart.de
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