Re: Copland merely shifts the burden to the programmer

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From: Gregory L Hansen
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 17:26

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In article <4hltk5$qn9@news-f.iadfw.net>, Clyde Coffey <clyde@iadfw.net> wrote:
>ghansen@isc.sjsu.edu (Gregory L Hansen) wrote:
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>>I don't think you'd have to restart any apps.  As far as I can tell, if 
>>the restart generates some kind of RestartedBlueBox event, you can 
>>trivially redraw everything.  All your data are safely tucked away in 

>Doesn't this assume that all apps run only their UI in the Blue Box? I
>was wondering if any apps would actually work this way and you seem to
>be assuming that *all* of them will.

Yes.  Any Copland-savvy app will work that way.  Load the UI portion in 
the Blue Box, and spawn off the entire rest of the program in a single 
thread if you like.  But that's the whole point of Copland having a Blue 
Box.  If someone doesn't like it, they can keep writing System 7 apps.

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From: ghansen@isc.sjsu.edu (Gregory L Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Copland merely shifts the burden to the programmer
Date: 8 Mar 1996 17:26:15 GMT
Organization: San Jose State University, San Jose, California
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