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jbye@acorn.co.uk (James) writes:

>As luck would have it, I do have a list of the filter manager SWI's.  Cut
>and save from the dotted line.

Wow! I finally know what the FilterManager actually does! Thanks, James!

Okay, so the next (rather obvious) question is:
What do people (especially thems what reside @ acorn...) think the FM can
be used for?

We have come up with a couple of ideas... but what else can you/have you
thought of?

  * Conversion of "new style" WIMP events/messages to "Old Style" ones so that
    Acorn can in future OSes completely rearrange the event structures without
    losing compatability with "old" programs.

  * Trapping and logging of all events for an app. during development.

  * Keyboard-equivalent converters (Make save-all ctrl-A instead of shift-f9
    in edit, for example (not that you'd necessarily want to, but it gives you
    the power to...))

  * Allow key equivalents (like f12) while TASKWINDOWs are running! Yeah!!!
    (Or is this fixed under RO3?)

  * Specialised icons: e.g. "slider" icons - can these now be added by trapping
    redraw, click, etc. events, and automatically handling the slider before
    the application has a chance to notice the click... These clicks can then
    be converted to messages to the application telling it the new slider
    position...

Hmmm... I'm beginning to like the idea of a filter manager...

One hint to Acorn, here... The text in those SWI descriptions is rather
hard to understand... Perhaps using 2 or 3 sentences would help... Fullstops
don't use much laser-toner... ;-)
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