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

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2 total messages Started by Mr A E Hersee Fri, 09 Oct 1992 11:03

#275

Author: 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

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

#279

Author: I.D. Griffiths
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 15:08

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I would suggest seeing if Acorn's pinboard is loaded, and killing it if it is..

|> Come on Acorn surley you need to follow your own guidelines. 

...yeah!  right.

What I particularly liked about rthe last style guide from Acorn was the
number of times it points out where Acorn's own applications deviate...

Ian Griffiths

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