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In reply to Andrew Black & Ian Palmer:

I to think that the RISC OS Library is not worth bothering with.
But what I would like to know about is 'several poll loops' in one program.
I am, at this point, looking into this technique and am totally dismayed
at the lack of documentation on the topic as pointed out by Andrew with
respect to magazines and PRM's I might add!!!

Ian knocked the problem on the head with who's in control of what...the
programmer or the library...when the programmer is in control, the program is 
a lot easier to debug and design, also I'm currently looking at DeskLib and
evaluating its merits...it looks pretty goods so far. 

The real reason for this posting is to ask for help.  Could some kind person
briefly detail the use of several polling loops with respect to dialogue
boxes, whether connected to the menu tree or static.  I only realised about
a month ago that this is how the 'dbox' section of the RISC OS Library
works.  I have tried to duplicate this feature using the MENUDIE (0x400c9)
message of RISC OS 3 and have had partial success, but I feel if I ask
about this then perhaps a concise and clear way of doing this can be made
public...its almost a scandle that this is kept a secret.

Also, if there are other areas where they are of use in a program, perhaps
they could be given a mention too.

All help given would be WARMLY welcomed...

Also, of amusement...do you know how long it took me to find out that static
dbox's can be displayed using the 'Wimp_CreateMenu' call?  A loooonnnnggg time.
...its not documented in the pages of the PRM where you'd expect...NO...its in
the application notes at the BACK of volume III!!!  How many novice
programmers know this?


Stephen Mansfield.