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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
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- 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
-
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