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Article 3442 of comp.sys.amiga:
Path: applix!m2c!necntc!husc6!think!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!ucdavis!egg-id!ui3!wsucshp!kinner
From: kinner@wsucshp.UUCP (Bill Kinnersley )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: HackBench - a Workbench clone
Message-ID: <160011@wsucshp.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jul 87 03:11:58 GMT
Organization: WSU Computer Science
Lines: 2101
In article <1025@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> ralph@mit-atrp.UUCP
(Amiga-Man) wrote:
> I'll either fix it or write a new Workbench....Big project, but
> big win. Anybody doing this already (please ?...so I don't
> have to ?).
Well, OK, it sounds like a good idea so I did it.
Actually, the real motivation was curiosity. A while ago,
mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (His microwave has menus) Meyer)
wrote:
> ...the Workbench is just another application program
Really? But, but...
In <Intuition Manual p.3-6> =RJ= (R J Mical) wrote:
> Intuition treats the Workbench application as a special case,
> communicating with it in extraordinary ways. For example,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^
> ...you can call OpenWorkBench() and CloseWorkBench() even
> though the Workbench tool may have open windows in the screen
Maybe I'm overly suspicious, but when I read that I couldn't
help but wonder..is this the only "extraordinary" treatment
Workbench gets? Does Workbench know about hooks that we don't?
Does it receive special messages? What's the *real* purpose of
that window flag WBENCHWINDOW?
I couldn't think of any reason that Workbench would need special
treatment, and finally the only way to settle it was to write a
Workbench clone.
I haven't tried to get fancy, or even worried much about being
complete. What I've spent time on is trying to write a clean
core, on which further ideas may now be tried. Suggestions and
bug reports welcome.