Re: [MiNT] AES desktop extension

[Philipp Donzé <philipp.donze@epfl.ch>]

Hi,

I've followed your discussion about extending the AES for a better 
desktop window management.
Here some thoughts from me:

We should use the normal wind_set(WF_NEWDESK) function to implement 
your idea. I.e.
-wind_set(0, WF_NEWDESK, &objc_addr) sets the appropriate desktop 
object.
-wind_set(0, WF_NEWDESK, 0L) removes the desktop object and disables 
desktop management
-wind_set(0, WF_NEWDESK, -1L) enables the sending of WM_REDRAW messages

Sure, an AES implementation should make sure that if applications are 
switched it is perhaps necessary to send a redraw message to the dektop 
window.

If we go further in this direction, we could use the WF_NEWDESK feature 
for normal windows too!
It could be used for an easy implementation of window dialogs. I.e. an 
application can add an object tree to a window just by using 
wind_set(whandle, WF_NEWDESK, &my_dialog).
Sure in this case the name WF_NEWDESK should be replaced by something 
like WF_OBJECT or WF_OBJTREE.

I think this would lead to a proper implementation of your desired 
feature and further it could be a proper way of implementing window 
dialogs (and get rid of WDIALOG ;-)).
Sure for backwards compatibility we need to add this features to old OS 
like TOS and MagiC.

Your comments are wellcome

Philipp