Re: W1r2 binaries / Gcc 2.3.3

[Mike Pelletier <sshifter@ophelia.waterloo.net>]

On Mon, 15 Jan 1996, Tamminen Eero wrote:

> >     I've noticed that if the screen scrolls while W is running, somehow 
> > W's notion of the screen scrolls along with it.  Ie, you can move windows 
> > and the mouse off the upper edge of the screen, but you cannot get to the 
> > lower edge.  This bug must have taken some PRETTY fancy programming to 
> > achive!  Kudos.  Anyways, normally this isn't a problem, because W 
> 
> W doesn't do anything which could cause that kind of behaviour.  When
> started, W just checks Getrez() for the standard Atari screen
> resolutions, sets the screen size variables / color mode function
> pointers accordingly and gets the logical screen address for the
> screen graphics bitmap address.
> 
> Are you sure you don't have any funny TSRs? On my machine I run vconsoles
> and 'MiNT screensaver' with W without any troubles.

    Yup.  Perhaps I've got a funky fasttext device or something.  
Anyways, I've put a screen clear and cursor off code at the end of my rc, 
so there's no problem.

    Is there any way to simulate an event?  Esp. to any window, not 
necisarily your own?  I would like this very much.

Hmm...