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- On Thu, 30 Jun 1994, HANG-FIRE wrote:
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- > Date sent: 30-JUN-1994
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- > >
- > >I have a question....
- > >
- > >How can you open an intuition screen without it popping to the front as
- > >soon as you open it?? It makes an utter pain out of loading a picture in
- > >the background etc.. Can the screen be made invisible automatically so
- > >you can then display it after you have got it ready??
- >
- > There should be a flag that you can set when opening a screen which causes the
- > screen to open in the background. This is documented in the Amiga Include
- > files, if you like I can go home and try and find out what the flag is - I
- > could probably mail you the info tomorrow.
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- Thanks.. I couldn't see it in the include files when I had a look.. I was
- half asleep though.. ;-)
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- > In the meantime, could you use hidescreen to quickly move the screen to the
- > back after opening it? I'm not sure if there is a hidescreen command, what you
- > might have to do is a ScreenToBack_(peek.l(addr screeen(0))).
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- There is a hidescreen.. The screen flicks up and then off though...
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- Anyone think that a amiprefs library is worthwhile?? If so, I'll start
- on one.. (I've been tossing the idea around). It will allow you to alter
- some parameters of the current preferences.. (ie. change pointer etc..)
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- - Paul
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- Claremont College - Tasmania, Australia d oo b
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