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- From: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: More GADTOOLS questions...
- Message-ID: <34908@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 21:46:28 GMT
- References: <mbs.0xis@adastra.cvl.va.us>
- Reply-To: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
- Organization: Commodore-Amiga, Inc. West Chester, PA.
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- In article <mbs.0xis@adastra.cvl.va.us> mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith) writes:
- >V37 of gadtools.library has some weirdnesses when GT messages get queued up.
- >It tends to cause the machine to lock up. GRn opens a 1x1 requester whenever
- >it is "busy", and uses windows to simulate requesters.
-
- I don't think so. There are no known problems with V37 gadtools and
- queuing of messages. Care to elaborate? Better yet, send a bug report
- with sample code please.
-
- >The problem with real requesters is that GT's aren't locked out, unless they
- >are explicitly disabled (not a chance you'd do that for speed purposes if you
- >have more than one). So, if the user goes clicking away around the screen,
- >you've got a hung machine....(it is quite possible that Myke or I did something
- >wrong in GRn -- but we don't think so, and no one has pointed it out to us).
-
- Real requesters DO lock out all gadgets in the parent window, including
- GadTools gadgets. Unless you're trying to get smart with LockLayer() or
- LockLayerInfo() or LockIBase(), there are no known ways to provoke a
- deadlock in Intuition without there being a coding error in the application.
- We sought out an annihilated all such problems prior to the release of 2.04.
-
- Of course, we'd be interested in any useful information to the contrary...
-
- > // Michael B. Smith
-
- Peter
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- Peter Cherna, User Interface Development Group, Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
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