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Re: [MiNT] XaAES doesn't respect wind_update?



On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 22:59 +0100, Peter Persson wrote:
> > That's true. But how useful is it?
> 
> Ever tried writing a full screen app which isn't hardware dependent? :)

Good point.

> > Such applications can be run in
> > single-mode. The current behaviour is very useful. Simple GUI-tools can
> > be written using form_dial, and they don't block other applications when
> > running.
> 
> Is that really accurate? Afaik form_dial() doesn't lock the screen at all, but I'd love for you to prove me wrong because it seems like a much cleaner thing to do.

form_dial doesn't block anything, but a form_dial()-session is usually
inside a wind_update. So if XaAES respected wind_update it wouldn̈́'t be
possible to run wind_dial-apps without them blocking all other apps.

Jo Even