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From: a2bartel@rzdspc24.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Henner Bartels)
Subject: A lot of questions
Organization: University of Hamburg, FRG
Date: 11 Jan 93 11:07:36 GMT

Well, again I`m thinking about a new project, and I don`t
know how to realize it. First of all, the examples given are ment
as examples and not as that, what I really plan to do. ;-)

So now the questions:
 a) I wanna get informed, if the user (actually me) clicks on a
    system-gadget. Example: If the User clicks on the Screen2Front
    gadget, not the Screen2Front function shall be invoked, but
    a screenselection list  will be displayed. To perform this,
    I must know when a system gadget is clicked and the information
    has to be `stolen` from the system, so that the system can`t
    perform the original function.
 b) Belonging to this, is there a way of telling the system that
    one of it`s gadgets is clicked, when it is`nt really.
 c) I want to send messages to a window (better it`s controlling
    process). e.g. I`ve got the address of a window, and want to tell
    it that it should close.
 d) I also want to add a gadget in the menubar of any window
    e.g. a gadget wich will call DisplayBeep() when pressed. The point
    is that this gadget should be attached to any window (not only
    the windows controlled by my specific task. For example
    to support a minimize/maximize function for OS < 2.0
 e) How can I program a window-iconify mechanism. To be more
    precise, what have I got to do, that the window-owner still
    could draw into his window, even though it`s not displayed anymore.

Answers to one ore more (even better: all ;-]) questions will leed
to extrem happiness. C-source will be welcomed.
Thanks in advance.

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* Henner Bartels                             * Hey man, that`s impossible *
*                                            *                            *
* a2bartel@rzdspc2.informatik.uni-hamburg.de * So let`s do it !!          *
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From: 2575brooksr@vms.csd.mu.edu (Ryan K. Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: GadTools Scroller ?
Date: 12 Jan 1993 19:13:22 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 2575brooksr@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsa.csd.mu.edu

Hi all!
	I've had good success with using propgadgets, but since most
of my coding now involves GadTools.library, I am trying to use
a scroller gadget.   Anyone have any example code they could post?
I am having problems setting the size of the bar and position of
the bar (ie GT_SetGadgetAttrs).  Thanks much!   Ryan

 ----------------------------
 Ryan K. Brooks                Chip of the Month Club: TMS320C40
 2575BrooksR@vms.csd.mu.edu
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From: setzer@ssd.comm.mot.com (Thomas Setzer)
Subject: Disassemblers?  Anyone, anyone?
Organization: Motorola
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 11:06:23 GMT
Summary: Where?

Does anyone know of a good dissassembler?  Public domain or otherwise.
If PD, what ftp site?
  
Do these dissassemble floating point instructions?

Also, what is the latest version of lharc?


Thanks

Tom Setzer
setzer@ssd.comm.mot.com
From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: HostileTakeOver of Amiga OS
Date: 11 Jan 93 23:05:47 PST
Organization: BBS

> > Speaking of this, what is the proper way to find the base of the
> > vectors?
 
> AddIntServer... use it, it works.
 
If you're going to take over the system, you might be able to use
SetIntVector in cases where you would normally use AddIntServer, like VBLANK.
 
Anyway, the way to get the actual VBR address is given as an example
in the Supervisor() autodoc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: cpc@shell.portal.com (Chris Cebelenski)
Subject: Re: Subliminal Messages
Organization: Portal Communications Company -- 408/973-9111 (voice) 408/973-8091 (data)
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 01:22:37 GMT

In article <19399@mindlink.bc.ca> Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs) writes:
>In article <C0IMpJ.A5o@unix.portal.com> cpc@shell.portal.com
>(Chris Cebelenski) writes:
>
>>multi-colored backgrounds.  My attention was immediately drawn to the
>>static displays and I noticed that there were words faded into the patterns
>>and colors.  I pointed this out to people around me and nobody could
>>see these words.  (Example words "Peace", "Love", "Apple" (?), etc.)
>
>     Hmmm.  Any idea who sponsored this presentation?
>
No, I can't recall the name of the group.  I don't belive we were ever
told.  We were just hearded in there like cattle and told to "watch this."
Just your typical respect for high school age students. (no smilely)


>Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca
>Is it coincidence that the Mac was released in 1984?
>
cpc@shell.portal.com
From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: OS 'Move/Draw' speed
Date: 7 Jan 93 17:57:14 PST
Organization: BBS

> The other day I ran a simple test to compare the speed of the Draw
> function to a simple direct line blit taken from the 1.3 hardware
> ref manual.
 
Which ROM version?  There have been claims of better optimization of
some graphics functions in v39, but I dunno if Draw() was one.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: duening@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Lars Duening)
Subject: Re: RKM description of WaitPort()
Reply-To: duening@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Lars Duening)
Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:55:15 GMT

qbarnes@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Quentin Barnes) wrote in 
  <1993Jan1.221013.26070@urbana.mcd.mot.com>:

> I was reading the description of the WaitPort() call in the RKM:Libraries
> and was confused by the description.  On page 504, it says:
> 
> 	...  It is possible to receive a signal for a port without
> 	a message being present yet.  The code processing the 
> 	messages should be able to handle this. ...

I read from this doc that a port-message-arrival-signal is not
protected from being used by any other process.
I.e. if you're port signal is raised, do not assume that a message
has arrived - your program could have been tricked. But you can be
sure that every arriving message will set the signal after it has been
attached to the port.
--
Lars Duening
duening@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
From: chrisg@cbmvax.commodore.com (Chris Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Hardware bashing demo takes an OS friendly turn.
Date: 7 Jan 93 21:32:41 GMT
Reply-To: chrisg@cbmvax.commodore.com (Chris Green)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1993Jan7.113238.1139@imada.ou.dk> breese@monet.imada.ou.dk (Bjoern Reese) writes:
>The recent discussion on hardware bashing made me wonder if I
>could adjust one of my demos to be more OS friendly. I took
>a demo which I did at the end of 1990 (in fact the last demo
>that I released: "Dexion XMas Demo 1990" - well, it was more
>like an intro.) My old routines looked like this (a5 points
>to my data section in both examples)
>
>I had to give up using WaitBlit() in preference of testing the
>BBUSY bit in the dmaconr hardware register by myself. Using
>WaitBlit() increased the execution time about 1/5 of a frame
>(which I could afford), but as I depended on the preservation
>of all data registers and most address registers I had to dump
>the scratch registers on the stack, which increased execution
>time about 1/2 frame (and that I couldn't afford).

	WaitBlit is defined to not trash any registers.

-- 
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From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Flushing Devices; C= doco (mutter!)
Date: 7 Jan 93 21:01:02 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
NNTP-Posting-Host: glia.biostr.washington.edu

In <1993Jan7.104601.19603@trl.oz.au> aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan) writes:

>From article <1993Jan7.092127.13752@philips.oz.au>, by gduncan@philips.oz.au (Gary Duncan):
>[...] 
>> Passing thought ; why the heck aren't unused libraries/devices
>> flushed automatically anyway? Sounds like a legacy of the days 
>> when hard disks were rare and dragging a device off floppy was
>> time-consuming. Those days are gone...

>For some, maybe.  But memory is cheap, so why not leave it resident unless
>there is a panic?

Memory is not all THAT cheap...and with only 2Meg of Fast ram...*I*'ve
panicked!  This is a VERY important consideration - flushing memory and
getting things back to an unfragmented state so PageStream doesn't crash.
*grumble*

A POX on programmers who can't clean up after themselves...(or their programs!)

Crystal
  ;>
From: rnelson@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (roger nelson;S23487)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: GNU regular expression lib for DICE
Date: 9 Jan 93 21:07:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1993Jan9.210730.6217
Organization: Washington State University


Does anyone have a version of Edwin Hoogerbeets Amiga shared library of the
GNU Regular expression package (fish disk 248)  regex.lib  file compiled 
under DICE.
The regex.lib and assembly files are for Aztex C.

Thanks,
  Roger
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: courtn@hercules.cs.uregina.ca (todd courtnage)
Subject: Amiga COBOL compiler?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:50:50 GMT
Organization: University of Regina, SK, Canada

I'm looking for COBOL for the Amiga.  Is there a PD version available on FF
or fTP?  If so, could you please supply me with the FF number or an FTP site?

Please e-mail me.
From: doctor@k9.UUCP (Paul Broe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Subliminal Messages
Date: 12 Jan 93 06:22:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: k9.doctor.06x2
Organization: Mostly Harmless...
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16g (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <1993Jan11.030128.9105@midway.uchicago.edu> sjchmura@kimbark.uchicago.edu (steven joseph chmura) writes:
> In article <1993Jan7.165811.6987@csar.encore.com> chattend@csar.encore.com (Chuck Hattendorf) writes:
> >crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:
> ><Lots deleted> (Besides, Lynx was exceedingly bug-ridden anyway...)
> >
> >>There's no proof that subliminals even work anyway.  Much debate.  It's kinda
> >>like astrology...some swear by it, and others swear AT it... ;>
> >
> >Are those stories of movie-goers interrupting their viewing by responding to
> >coke and candy adds at the snack bar incorrect? I thought subliminal sug. was
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Yes Yes Yes.  Once and for all - There is <nil evidence for this.

I think this one is in the alt.folklore.urban FAQ. You can check over there
for more info on stuff like this.

-- 
----
Paul Broe
Internet: broe@plains.nodak.edu
UUCP: uunet!plains!prototype!k9!doctor (My Amiga 2500/20)    AmigaUUCP 1.16D
BIX: pbroe Compu$erve: too expensive.                        AmigaOS 2.05
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: HELP: malloc() and system dependancy
From: mneylon@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (Michael Neylon)
Date: 10 Jan 93 20:39:43 EST

My friend and I are working together on producing a flashcard program.  He
has SAS/C 6.0, I have 6.1.  Today, he gave me some code and a executable.
The output seems to work fine on his machine.  However, when I try to run
the same executable, there is some memory conflict cause the font gets all
screwed up.  

I figure it is a malloc() call in his program.  He has defined it safely
according to standards.  Now, is malloc() safe to use on any system?

He has a 2000 w/ 2.1, very little in the way of commodities ( a screen 
blanker is all).  I have a 500 w/ 2.1, and lots of extra programs at the top,
including Nickprefs, CopperPrefs, TM2.0, ToolsDaemon 2.0b, MFR, ASwarm3
MagIcon, and use csh for the shell.

-- 
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      //         | Senior, Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Toledo
  \\ // Only the |   Summer Intern, NASA Lewis Research Center
\  \X/   AMIGA!  |         mneylon@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu           /
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: seifert@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Michael S. Seifert)
Subject: SAS/C 6.1 memlib question
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 05:07:04 GMT


My very dear program has a tendency to lock up after 10 to 15 minutes of
use, for no immediately obvious reason.  Therefore Ive broken out my group
o' debugging tools, including the memlib option in SAS/C.  Although I dont
know if this is the problem, once in a while memlib will open a window
and say:

Free memory modified (or something of this sort), line 95 file ""

So my question is-- what is file ""...

The program uses two assembly functions and an input handler, everything else
is typical c...

mike
From: bobt@bbs1984.chi.il.us (Bob Tomasevich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: what does guru 87000004 mean?
Date: 8 Jan 93 20:15:02 CST
Organization: Not an Organization

I get guru 87000004 when an assembler program I am testing exits while running
in NTSC.  The same program does not guru in PAL.  

Could it be the screen size causing problems in NTSC?

EMAIL replies preferred.

Thanks!

Bob Tomasevich, Sears Point of Sale programming team.
My opinions are not those of my employer, Sears, Roebuck, & Co.
 
Please, someone buy something from us... we're not that bad!
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From: stlombo@eos.acm.rpi.edu (Steve J. Lombardi)
Subject: Help with ILBM's
Organization: The Voice of Fate
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 01:21:56 GMT

sorry if this is a repost. my mailer hung.

I wanted to create a few simple apps for amigados that utilized 
intuition and needed Ilbm/anim support. I have spent the last month
or so with the RKM libs manual and feel pretty comfortable with 
intuition. Now I'm looking for a painfree path to adding
ilbm support to my applications. pretty basic stuff bear in mind.
I wouldn't mind learning about Ilbm's in depth later on, but for
the moment would like to keep my hands clean. Is there a library
that might provide calls such as LoadIlbm() or NextDelta?? This
would be a great aid in getting an Amiga novice like myself
going. any suggestions??

Also where is reqtools.library documented. What are it's uses?

One more thing! is ToolMaker a C= product? I've heard of it
but can't seem to find much out about it.

Thanks in advance for any help!!

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
                    | why would he be such a jerk? i know that he doesn't smoke 
steve lombardi      | drugs. and he doesn't do cocaine. and he doesn't shoot 
stlombo@acm.rpi.edu | smack. and he doesn't even drink beer. Why would he be 
                    | such a fu*ker to me? --WEEN
-- 

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
                    | why would he be such a jerk? i know that he doesn't smoke 
steve lombardi      | drugs. and he doesn't do cocaine. and he doesn't shoot 
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From: sjchmura@kimbark.uchicago.edu (steven joseph chmura)
Subject: Re: Subliminal Messages
Reply-To: sjchmura@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:01:28 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.165811.6987@csar.encore.com> chattend@csar.encore.com (Chuck Hattendorf) writes:
>crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:
><Lots deleted> (Besides, Lynx was exceedingly bug-ridden anyway...)
>
>>There's no proof that subliminals even work anyway.  Much debate.  It's kinda
>>like astrology...some swear by it, and others swear AT it... ;>
>
>Are those stories of movie-goers interrupting their viewing by responding to
>coke and candy adds at the snack bar incorrect? I thought subliminal sug. was
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yes Yes Yes.  Once and for all - There is <nil evidence for this.

-- 
________________________________________________________________________________Steven Chmura				University of Chicago Medical School(M1)
  "Given enough time, the impossible becomes probable, and the probable
	inevitable.."  -George Wald, "On the Origins of Life"
From: johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven)
Subject: Re: How to allocate memory nicely?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: 6 Jan 93 23:48:43 WST
Organization: ACix - Private UUCP Node, Cloverdale, Western Australia.

Paul Kienitz (paulk@terapin.com) wrote:
> Not with Aztec.  If using Aztec, malloc() is not a good idea for
> large numbers of small allocations.

2 questions:
1. Which version of Aztec are we talking about
2. Whats wrong with it
From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: IPC and shared memory
Date: 9 Jan 1993 21:23:12 GMT
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
NNTP-Posting-Host: swrinde.nde.swri.edu

In article <1993Jan8.222418.21348@oracle.us.oracle.com> dnavas@oracle.uucp (David Navas) writes:
>In article <1iihaaINN7fv@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@stanley.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
>
>>Yes, I was sampling stereo at 12.5 kHz, delaying the second channel by about
>>500 samples, playing back the results in audio and plotting the waveforms AND
>>writing the results to my Quantum 52MB drive throught the FFS filesystem (the
>>one that came with my A3000) in realtime. (I can go up to about 17kHz if I
>>turn off the waveform plotting and still write to disk in realtime.)
>
>Was this on the A4000?  Just curious as to your hardware.  I don't have
>a sampler to play with :(

No, It was on the A3000. I haven't spent enough time on the A4000 to
determine how well it works, but it has more difficulty than I would have
expected. For one, the IDE drive is noticably slower to write to. Secondly, I
think the AS225 software I'm running on the A4000 slows things down a bit.
But waveform drawing speeds are VERY nice :^) Much faster than the A3000.

>Eek!  What, I can't play missile-command in the background anymore?  :)

Yes you can still play missile-command in the background. Just don't expect
to have a continuous audio sample when you're done.

Kent Polk: Southwest Research Institute (will disavow any knowledge of me)
Internet : kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu
(DoF #)  : "Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want"
From: slhmz@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: PCQ?  Pascal?  PD?  Where!
Date: 12 Jan 93 01:28:10 MDT
Organization: Utah State University


I am in dire need of a Pascal Compiler.  I have heard of a PD compiler
with the name of PCQ or something simular.  Where does this beast live?

--
Faith Gibson
From: hugh@kink.PhaedraV.On.Ca (Hugh D. Gamble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Wanted: info on available C++ compilers
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 23:57:59 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Phaedra V

In article <1h5pgkINNp36@huon.itd.adelaide.edu.au>, Wayne McKeen writes:

> I am looking for a decent C++ compiler for the Amiga and I have not able
> to find any dealers in S.A., and very few elsewhere. What compilers are
> available, at what cost, and from where can I get one? I am aware of the
> existence of g++, however I would like information on the commercial C++
> compilers which are available.

g++ is commercial if you want it to be. It's perfectly legal for
companies to sell it to you. In fact there are companies that make a
living from support of gcc and related tools. Drop a line to Marcus
Wild, he might be willing to charge you $ in return for support. Heck,
I will, if you offer enough. :-)

Seriously, don't discount g++ because it's "free". There are valid
reasons why you might not want it, I concur. You always have the
option of getting the AT&T Cfront c++ front end from Comeau, which
will be as good as the c compiler you put underneath it, but g++ is a
top quality compiler. If you need one now, waiting for SAS to come out
with their commercial quality one could cost you $ in lost time.

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From: paulm@pam-sy.UUCP (Paul C. Mrozowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: SEEKing to EOF
Date: 11 Jan 93 23:52:48 GMT
Organization: None
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith


  Hopefully someone here can answer a simple (?) question (or maybe just 
a dumb question). I'm writing a small program that's supposed to open
a file, read in some information, and write out this info. to a second
file (appending it to the second file). Everything seems to work, right
until I do the FPuts, then the program bombs. Here's some of the code:

  (misc includes, and opening of both files).



j = Seek(file_handle2, 0, OFFSET_END);     /* Move to the EOF() */
for( ; ; )
{
	
buffer = FGets(file_handle, line, NUM);

	if(buffer == NULL)
	{
		Close(file_handle);    
                Close(file_handle2);  
		Exit(0);
	}
	
p = strstr(buffer,string);

	if(p != NULL) break;

}

p=p+sizeof(string);
strcpy(newstr,"Rename ");
strcat(newstr, "1439");
strcat(newstr, p);

printf(newstr);
i = FPuts(file_handle2, newstr);       /* Program bombs right here */


  I have a feeling I'm missing something obvious, but I'm not sure what.
Any suggestions?

 
Paul

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From: jdutka@wpi.WPI.EDU (John Dutka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: ResEdit 2.1 for Amiga
Date: 6 Jan 1993 15:04:33 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

In article <C0F2Hn.86w@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
>   Useless to someone with no imagination, perhaps.  I, however, would like to
>be able to take Amiga executable files apart and replace any imbedded images,
>sounds, etc.  If this is possible.

Hey!  I actually agree with Marc once.  If possible, it WOULD be nice to be
able to do.

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