Tidy icon events...

[Tom Mackey]

In article <1990Nov14.055148.22258 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> kahn at uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Kahn) writes:
>
>	I have a program that iconifies the graphics window when
>a "stow" is selected as a smaller copy of the existing screen
>image. As an icon, the program waits for an "open" or "winquit"
>event to continue execution. The problem that I am experiencing
>occurs whenever I select the "tidy" item while an icon is drawn;
>my program starts to process events as if it is no longer an

Hah!  I complained about exactly the same thing 3 weeks ago, and
never got an answer.  I thought perhaps it was some twisted braindead
thing I was doing, but now I am convinced there is something wrong
(or mis-understood) going on here.  My present far out conjecture
is that the window manager does something different when you queue
the device REDRAWICONIC.  If you do not queue this device, the
window manager does "the normal thing" when it iconifies a window.
If you have it queued, the WM appears to be lost, almost as if we
need to give the NeWS software some new C function to execute.  It
may be related to the difference you see if you queue the LEFTMOUSE
button... that button no longer is automatically used to pick up
a window and move it around with a pick in the center of the window.
I'm not suggesting that this latter behavior is a bug, just that
both activities seem to cause a default behavior to be replaced
with a null behavior.  If I am close to being correct on this line
of conjecture, it would appear that we need to be able to replace
the default behavior with something of our own choosing.  We could
do that if the TIDY event generated a REDRAWICONIC token.  And while
we are at it, why doesn't our icon get tidied, and what causes it
to respond (correctly, I might add) to the OpenAll menu choice from
the Windows Chest?

To be truthful, I haven't reported this to the hotline, since NeWS
is (unfortunately) going to be replaced by X in the next release,
and I am sure that will introduce an entirely new and slimier can
of worms!

Aren't defacto standards backed with politics just wonderful?

Just how much of the MAX/NeWS niftiness is going away when X stomps
in?  Pandora?  The personalized login icons?  The Toolchests?  The
comfortable (to me, anyway) MAX windows?  I find it amazing that an
entire industry is letting itself be railroaded like this.  What ever
happened to X11/NeWS (best of both worlds)?  I guess I'm most bummed
because I work on the user interface (home-grown) of our project, and
for two years haven't been able to do the well overdue revamping
because I've been waiting see if SGI was going X or NeWS (hoping for
NeWS).  So OK.... its X.  Now I feel that its going to be a real steep
learning curve to get caught up to the point that I can revamp a very
large existing application.

OK.  Ok... I'll stop whining!   ;^}    After all, it all pays the same!
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