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burke@vxdesy.desy.de (Stephen Burke) writes

>  It actually took me a while to realise that you can have more than one
>polling loop in a program - obvious in retrospect, of course. I don't think
>I've ever seen it suggested in a magazine article, though.

I have always wondered why a classic ARC program  written in basic has
one polling loop and a mighty great dispatch code.  It makes following
what is going on very dificult; there is no context information that
Wimp_message_xyz will turn up after you have (say) put dialogue box up
or send some other message.

I deduced that a library that hid WIMP_POLLS from the programmer would
make life a lot easier.  In my naivity I assumed that RISCOS_lib was
the thing to go for.  RISCOS_lib seems to be depricated in the refined
circles of COMP.SYS.ACORN

Perhaps someone could summarise what the problems are with RISCOS_lib,
and what the alternatives are? (There has been some detailed
correspondance on this subject, but must confess to not having
followed the details - please don't flame me for going over old ground
;-) )

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