Re: [MiNT] Popups

["Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>]

Jo Even Skarstein, 24.03.2013 23:02:48:

> On Sun, 2013-03-24 at 22:55 +0100, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
> > I don't know what method thing! uses for these popups, but the reason  
> > why
> > the AES is blocked is that thing! locks the mouse with
> > wind_update(BEG_MCTRL). As a test-app I used lines.app from atari, which
>
> If XaAES could allow the timer-events to continue even if the screen is
> locked it would help a lot. That would keep stuff like mxPlay running.

And let lines.app do its drawings ..

If the popup would be a window it would be contained in the rectlist, and  
everything would be ok.

Maybe only an app_option can solve this, or even better a fix in thing!,  
but I have not taken a deeper look into the issue yet.

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Helmut Karlowski