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- From: spocky@acsys.UUCP
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: tasks which leave desktop and return
- Keywords: desktop, tasks
- Message-ID: <cP2c21w164w@acsys.UUCP>
- Date: 3 May 91 07:37:35 GMT
- References: <1991Apr23.135553.17810@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Organization: Acsys, Berlin Germany, first ACORN BBS in Berlin
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- J.W.Harley@newcastle.ac.uk (Jon Harley) writes:
-
- > I've seen a couple of desktop apps which take over the whole screen while
- > they're active (ie the iconbar icon has been clicked), then return to the
- > desktop afterwards without the "Press SPACE or click mouse to return to
- > desktop" message. The apps in question were a home accounts program and
- > !StrongEd, which you want to stay resident while you're not using them.
- >
- > I'm trying to do this for some PD software I'm writing - how is it done?
- > I've tried to do it with a second bank of vdu ram but with no success.
- >
-
- You ask for a clean termination?
- I think I can help you!
- I find this Article in the Risc User Magazine December 1989:
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- CLEAN TERMINATION
- If you run a non Wimp program from the
- Desktop, you will get the following message
- when it terminates: 'Press SPACE or click
- mouse to continue'. To avoid this add the line:
- SYS "Wimp_CommandWindow",-1
- to the end of the program, ensuring that no
- text or graphics output can occur after this statement has been
- executed. A program
- which is then run from the Desktop will
- return you to the Desktop as soon as the
- program terminates. Note, however, that if
- such a program is run directly from a Basic
- language environment, you will be left in a
- VDU 5 state, and the program should execute
- VDU 4 to return to normal cursor operation.
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