[MiNT] Re[2]: Re[3]: usage of wind_calc()

[Ingo Schmidt <ich@der-ingo.de>]

Hi MiNT-Liste!

> Who told about fixing a bug ???

I meant "working around a bug that no one seems to know". This is what
I found strange.

> I've never said that windom compute the WORK area that way and not another
> way because of this bug !

No, but u said that there are buggy AESs. So far I still don't know
which AES is buggy. And thats basically all I wanted to know.

> There are for sure other reasons (internal to windom, to have a
> simplier and easy-to-maintain design).

Aha! Well, originally it sounded a bit like:
"There is some bug that may or may not be there, that is why Windom
totally handles everything itself".

This is why I reacted like I did. Because here is my point of view:

We should assume a working and flawless OS and use all the cool
features it has! Should some OS be buggy or not have the feature at
all, well, then we make a special workaround for this annyoing OS or
we kick the devloppers arse until it has the feature or - in the case
of MagiC, we just format our harddrive and install a decent OS ;-)

Do you get my point?
I dont know Windom good enough to tell if has super extra features for
the toolbar.

But my preferred way would be this:
Implement decent toolbar support in the AES. And then USE that toolbar
support. After all we have two active AESs. And make  workarounds for
AES that are buggy. 

Even though a lib like Windom is certainly a nice thing, I am not a
fan of reinventing the wheel and bypassing the OS. And this is the
impression I got espcially because u mentioned this bug that I have
never seen.

But now Evan has pointed it out. Well, it was a bug in the old AES!

Thats another one! For how long are we going to support bloody old
TOS? I think there are enough apps available for TOS. But I dont think
we should make every app be able to run even under the oldest OS
thinkable!

I agree with Evan:
Let's move forward! Throw the old stuff overboard. Set some standards!
But I know, not everone thinks like that. This might end up in a bad
discussion, I know ;-)

Cheers, Ingo =;->