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From: [e-mail] (Per Lundholm)
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Date: Thu, 2 Sep 93 10:10:47 +0200
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Subject: Re: Jumping/flicker
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>
> >   If you have a Shell window open, Close Workbench will *NOT* work.  This is
> > because the Shell is a window on the Workbench screen that is not part of
> > Workbench itself.  Intuition cannot force "visitor" windows to close, so it
> > cannot close Workbench.
>
> If this is true then I should still see the Workbench screen etc. if I
> push Amiga-A, correct??   When I do this I see nothing, just a blank blue
> screen which indicates to me that it has worked.
               ^^^^^^^^^

*NOT*. Look at what was written to amos-list a while ago:

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From: Alex Howell <nsq![e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Welcome to the AMOS Mailing List!
Date:     Wed, 14 Jul 1993 01:47:19 -0400

[...]

Amos To Back every now and then (As
well as the Amiga-A swap) dislikes bringing up the WorkBench screen, instead
you're presented with a BLACK screen and nothing.  This is REALLY annoying
if you're putting a sleeper into your program so when you want it to sleep,
it goes to the WorkBench screen and deposits a window on it, waiting for you
to close to return.  There IS a SAFE way out of this.  Do the following after
EVERY Amos To Back.  (Even in Pro if you're worried.)

Amos To Back : DUMMY=Intcall(-390)

This will tell it to remake the current display.  The WorkBench view will be
properly displayed, even IF the WB window isn't present.  This will NEVER
fail.  <Ignore what DUMMY returns, it's nothing worth reading.>

If you want to make sure the WorkBench window IS open, add the following
in FRONT of your Amos To Back:

DUMMY=Intcall(-210)

This effectively is the Intuition function called "OpenWorkbench()" and it
does just that, but won't display it immediately, until you switch Amos To
Back and ensure it did with the second Intuition call DUMMY=Intcall(-390),
which is the Intuition function called ReThinkDisplay, which does just that,
looks at the current view up (at that point, the WorkBench view) and rebuilds
the display from there, properly.

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Bye, and hope this helps, I for one haven't tried it :).

    Per