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Article #275Acorn's pinboard does not follow their own rules (Bug)
From: Mr A E Hersee
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 11:03
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!warwick!not-for-mail From: esutt@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr A E Hersee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech 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 Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1b3oteINNo4r@lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk