Re: [MiNT] AES desktop extension

[Olivier Landemarre <olivier.landemarre@utbm.fr>]

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> > It's true for old AES only in monotos, it work perfectly under Magic, 
> > MyAeS and I think under NAES, XaAES and perhaps Geneva. The only 
> > restriction can comme with supervisor stack size.
>
>
> Well, this proves that it is not possible to write an application to 
> work on all these...

Just not call AES in userdef! for compatibility, you should not need, 
what do you want to do that need this?

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> > I have not understand exactly what you wan't to do with desktop, if 
> > you wan't send a redraw for the desktop, I think you not need 
> > anything at all, just wind_get  WF_FIRSTXYWH and WF_NEXTXYWH on 
> > window 0 and then do a form_dial( FMD_FINISH) on parts get with 
> > wind_get() I think it work (to test)
>
>
> It is not a problem to send the 'desktop redraw', but rather handle 
> the redraw action by the desktop application. 

Ok, but why would you take place of the desktop application? Do you 
wan't take control for desk or for all applications?

In fact in modern AES since TOS 4 it's possible you can take the object 
tree from the desktop and you should able to change the desk (not very 
clean) but possible for example to do a truecolor picture to a desk that 
not support this, it work fine (except with Jinee that is badly write 
and directly write texte of icon on object 0 rather stay system do it 
with icons! (really I don't know why?!))

> Now it is different than the other window handling which is the thing 
> we are trying to change.
>
> regards
>
> STan
Olivier