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Acorn's pinboard does not follow their own rules (Bug)

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From: Mr A E Hersee
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 11:03
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I have just started writing a sensible Iconizer application for RO3. Now what 
do Acorn say in their docs? They say that when an iconizer starts up it should
broadcast the message Message_WindowInfo with 0 as the window handle. Ok so I
do that. They then say that any present iconizer that receives such a message
should open all it's iconized windows and quit. Ok so mine does that as well.
The problem is that Acorn's PINBOARD does NOT!!!! So sometimes my application
gets the iconize messages and sometimes Pinboard nabs them :-(. Now although
their docs state that an iconizer that receives Message_WindowInfo with a
window handle of zero should quit a better soloution would be for it to
open all it's windows and stop catching messages this would then mean in 
pinboard's case that it could continue to act as a backdrop. Hmm looks as
though I will have to install a filter to filter out the relevant messages
so that Pinboard does not get them.

Any comments or help? Is there a bug fixed version of pinboard that I can
load? Come on Acorn surley you need to follow your own guidelines. Perhaps
this bug has not been spotted since not many people will have written iconizers
so now that I have spotted it can you release a new version?? Or do I have to
hack the module myself???

Andrew Hersee
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From: esutt@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr A E Hersee)
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Subject: Acorn's pinboard does not follow their own rules (Bug)
Date: 9 Oct 1992 12:03:10 +0100
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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