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- From: mdf@doc.ic.ac.uk (Martin Frost)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Menus and windows
- Date: 23 Feb 1996 15:24:07 -0000
- Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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- Is it legal for mi_LeftEdge to be negative, so if a menu item would extend
- past the right edge of the screen I can shift the menu left to make up for it,
- as happens on the Mac?
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- Also, I posted a question about SMART_REFRESH windows here a while ago, and
- I think I only got half the replies. What seemed to be said, though, was that
- SMART_REFRESH is not to be recommended even ignoring the memory overhead.
- People seemed to be suggesting that SMART_REFRESH made the system *slower*,
- which would rather defeat the object.
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- Because of this, I think I will make it an option with my program to either
- use a SMART_REFRESH window or patch OpenWindow() and selectively save the
- relevant bit of background (since I own the screen, and I'm only worried
- about requesters).
-
- Martin
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