1. 10 Mar, 1998 1 commit
    • Ben Avison's avatar
      Main new features in Ursula build so far · 82a9df7d
      Ben Avison authored
      (some are also available in other builds):
      
      * New icon highlighting scheme - hue rotated 180°, photographic negative,
        darkened 25% - suits Ursula icons better.
      * Release-button window tools compile-time switch turned on.
      * Any "TASK" word cleared on exit from Wimp_OpenWindow, Wimp_GetWindowState,
        Wimp_ForceRedraw and Wimp_CloseDown.
      * Child windows are no longer allowed to be opened inside the icon bar.
      * Message_IconizeAt generation optimised, and no longer calls non-X SWIs.
      * Message_IconsChanged implemented, and switched out on speed grounds.
      * Wimp_ReadSysInfo 15 removed, replaced with (new) Wimp_Extend 11.
      * Backwindows are now segregated from normal windows. A new category,
        foreground windows, are added, and stay above all other windows. (The error
        box template is updated to make it a foreground window.)
      * ROM sprites override RAM sprites (and duplicate RAM sprites are deleted
        during the building of the sprite lookup list, preceding the first sprite
        plot after a sprite pool update).
      * Wimp_ReadSysInfo 16 added, to return sprite area pointers in order of
        priority (Wimp_BaseOfSprites retains the ROM/RAM distinction).
      * Error box code altered:
        + symbolic names used for offsets into tempworkspace
        + error button text buffer enlarged
        + stretched error buttons now shrink back for next use
        + int_flush_opens called at appropriate points to ensure buttons are seen to
          slab in, and to reduce flicker when redisplaying error box at a different
          width (also fixes some redraw bugs)
        + Cancel button given the R6 type border when it will be activated by Return
          (and is therefore moved to the extreme right in such cases)
        + Escape now always selects the second-right button (unless there's only one
          button!) - this also fixes a bug when there's a single user-defined button
        + keypresses in "xxx may have gone wrong" error boxes are now correctly
          interpreted - previously the buttons available in the underlying box were
          being used to determine the effect of keys
        + maximum number of buttons increased from 4 to 8, and the machine no longer
          crashes when the maximum is exceeded
        + window stretches horizontally to keep error message to 7 lines or less
      * Bugfix: opening or creating a window with a minimum x visible area coordinate
        of -1 was leading to any of smearing/flickering/recursive drawing. (This was
        actually due to a failure to recognise which windows' positions had been
        updated.)
      * Features merged in from spinner branch Wimp:
        + support for UpCall_MediaSearchEndMessage added
        + control-termination allowed in upcalls (used to require null-termination)
        + escape character switched to default during error box display, then
          switched back again afterwards
      * GetRectangle filters are now called with (internal) window handle in R10.
      * Autohourglass is deactivated whenever WrchV is invoked. (Also optimised.)
      * Action button bugfixes:
        + action buttons now deselect if the pointer is dragged off and a window tool
          is the pressed before all the buttons have been released
        + action buttons now slab in following a long (autorepeating) press on a
          scroll arrow window tool
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