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- From: willing@opus.hpl.hp.com (Scott Willingham)
- Subject: Re: gem progs run from gulam lock up
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:12:33 GMT
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- Organization: High Speed Electronics Department, HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA
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- svleest@lasso.crhc.uiuc.edu (Steve VanderLeest) writes:
- : Certain gem programs that I run from the gulam shell (using the gem
- : command) lock up the machine, while others do not. It also appears that
- : every gem program I write and compile myself also lock up. If I open
- : a single window within my program (which runs perfectly from the desktop)
- : it also displays a blank window which is the size of the window I ran
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- : gulam from. No mouse or keyboard inputs are recognized (and they should
- ^^^^^^^^^^
- : be). Does anyone have any ideas why this happens? I tried simplifying
- : my program down to doing next to nothing, but I still get the problem.
-
- Gulam was written well before anyone started running shells within TOS
- windows. It is meant to run on the whole screen and essentially take
- over subsequent program launchings, replacing the desktop. It is thus
- not surprising that it doesn't cooperate well with the desktop or even
- with any multitasking in general.
-
- Scott Willingham // willing@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com
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