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- 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
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- In article <1025@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> ralph@mit-atrp.UUCP
- (Amiga-Man) wrote:
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- > 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:
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- > ...the Workbench is just another application program
-
- Really? But, but...
-
- In <Intuition Manual p.3-6> =RJ= (R J Mical) wrote:
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- > 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?
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- 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.
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- 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.
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