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- From: "Olaf Barthel" <olsen@sourcery.han.de>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 14:38:18 +0100
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- Subject: Re: Window BackFill-Resize Hook ??
- Message-ID: <13213449@sourcery.han.de>
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- In Article <DKwzsK.6G4@utcc.utoronto.ca>, Norman Baccari <normb@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca> wrote:
- >
- > I wonder if anyone can comment on the following idea I had
- > and see if there would be any flaws in actually doing this.
- > Given 2 situations where A) we use a WA_Backfill hook for a
- > window and B) we have a resizeable window where the gadget
- > positioning would need to be adjusted on an IDCMP NewSize,
- > would it not be possible to combine the two. For example
- > using the BackFill hook function, first remove the gadgets,
- > do the backfill render (no need to clear old gadget images),
- > calculate the new gadget positions and then build and refresh
- > gadgets. Seems like this would be a more efficient way to
- > have resizing. No need to listen for NewSize messages. What
- > problems might I encounter in doing something like, if it could
- > be done that is.
-
- Actually, this is a complex method to get Intuition to deadlock.
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