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by djg
Sat Jul 06, 2013 6:33 pm
Forum: General AmigaOS
Topic: Sticky/slippery menus
Replies: 13
Views: 5686

Sticky/slippery menus

I prefer to use sticky panels for menus, but often the OS seems to think that I'm not pressing down the mouse button long enough. Sometimes the menu does not come up at all, sometimes the bar appears and disappears again immediately. I suspect this may have something to do with windows that have IDC...
by djg
Mon May 27, 2013 11:11 am
Forum: General AmigaOS
Topic: Version lookup in RAWBInfo slows down system with big files
Replies: 1
Views: 2304

Re: Version lookup in RAWBInfo slows down system with big fi

I agree that this does not work well. The DOS command Search for instance doesn't block things, can be stopped and even seems to be faster! Maybe the Version look-up uses Forbid() or something? Or maybe the search runs at too high a priority? Here programs running at a priority higher than Workbench...
by djg
Sun Jan 27, 2013 4:05 pm
Forum: General AmigaOS
Topic: Weird prop gadget problem
Replies: 2
Views: 1249

Re: Weird prop gadget problem

@salass00, Ok, thanks, I've fixed those things too now (and moved ReplyMsg() thinking that might be the cause). The missing TAG_DONE was a big error, and I thought adding it would fix things. So I compiled again (with the -W options) but got the same result. I noticed that the very program I am writ...
by djg
Sun Jan 27, 2013 3:06 pm
Forum: General AmigaOS
Topic: Weird prop gadget problem
Replies: 2
Views: 1249

Weird prop gadget problem

Hi, On my SAM440ep (AmigaOS 4.1 update 6), when I create a prop gadget with NewObject(), and slide the knob at a certain speed, few IDCMP_IDCMPUPDATE messages are sent to my program. It seems the processor is very busy with something. Strange thing is, this does not happen when I put the gadget in t...