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- From: mjl-b@minster.york.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: What is user activity?
- Message-ID: <727967909.3840@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 13:18:29 GMT
- References: <726852019.7184@minster.york.ac.uk> <1993Jan19.104933.4746@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> <4054@isgtec.isgtec.com>
- Reply-To: mjl-b@minster.york.ac.uk (Mathew Lodge)
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
- Lines: 27
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- In article <4054@isgtec.isgtec.com> ken@isgtec.com (Ken Newman) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan19.104933.4746@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry) writes:
- >> This means that (assuming you use the ikbdsys vector to detect mouse
- >> movement and keyboard presses in your screen saver):
- >> (1) In your ikbdsys routine you must check whether there really is a byte
- >> from the IKBD, otherwise the screen saver will not work with MIDI activity is
- >> taking place.
- >
- >This is definitely true, all screen savers I've used (even Atari's
- >MACCEL3) do not work properly with a MIDI device turned on. It thinks
- >the MIDI clock info or whatever is coming in is keypresses or mouse
- >movements, and the screen never blanks. This is annoying.
-
- ST-Blank does check to see if the IKBD really caused the interrupt (I
- checked the source at the weekend). I also fixed the bug that caused the
- AUTO folder program to crash if there was no .INF file -- I'll be uploading
- the updated version sometime soon.
-
- This has been a public service announcement... :-)
-
- >ken@isgtec.com [ ...!uunet.ca!isgtec!ken ] Ken Newman
-
- Mat
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