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In article <298@lexicon.UUCP> trh@lexicon.uucp (Tom Hegg) writes:

>I have a bunch of questions that I (and some friends not on the net)
>have accumulated, hopefully of a technical enough nature for the
>c.a.tech group.

I usually just read comp.sys.amiga.tech, but I think I can help with
some of these.


>1) Lattice 4.0.  I've seen some discussion on the net about the compiler
>defaulting to a 16-bit addressing mode,

I do Manx C, but I'm pretty sure Lattice only supports 32 bit ints no
matter what version you own.

>4)  Would like to find out the names for file system devices
>currently running ("DF0:", "DH0:", "VD0:", etc.).  This is for
>a file requester that hopefully has some smarts and gives you
>buttons for names of devices you actually have.  Is there
>any way to get this information from the operating system?

You can find an example of how to do this on the fish disks. Look
on earlier disks than 80.  I recommend that you provide a "devs" button
on your requester.  When the user presses this, list the devices
into the same place you would normally list the files.  This way you
don't have to worry about how much "button" space there is.  "Button"
space is a concern if a user has a machine with lot's of hard disk
partitions.

>
>6)  I don't know if anybody can help with this last one, but:
>I have a program that fairly regularly adds and deletes lots
>of gadgets in a non-resizable SMARTREFRESH window.
>After a while, flipping between windows (with the
>window-to-back gadgets) produces a rather annoying "rippling"
>effect (as I guess long lists of ClipRect's are repainted, I dunno).

For SMARTREFRESH windows, you should set the NOCAREREFRESH flag, and
this "rippling" effect will go away.  Your program should have a
faster user interface.

>Tom Hegg
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