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From article <STIBER.89Dec7220457@maui.cs.ucla.edu>, by stiber@cs.ucla.edu (Michael D Stiber):
> My speculation is that WindChooser installs a patch which reroutes
> calls to WDEF #0 to the WDEF selected within it.  Here lies the
> problem.  After the disks are unmounted, calls to the WDEF apparently
> require accessing the WindChooser file.  Since the hard disk is
> unmounted, this means we get a "Please insert disk FOO" dialog box,
> defeating the purpose of the screen blanking.

I didn't write the INIT part of WindChooser, just the cdev. But I have the
source to the INIT, which was written by Jorg ("jbx") Brown, of hierDA fame.
I will take a look at the code and see what's happening. However, I seriously
doubt that a look at the disk is required. More later...

> So, my question is this: is there any good way to install the
> "Shrinker" WDEF into the system, so it will work just like the default
> one does, without interfering with DiskLock?

There's a thread in comp.sys.mac.programmer about how to do this.

> I already tried just
> replacing the WDEF #0 in the system, but this didn't change the window
> appearances.  Therefore, I have reasoned that the critical WDEFs
> aren't in the System.

They're in the ROMs. Lots of resources are nowadays. A good thing, too, or
you wouldn't be able to make a usable System floppy...
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