pietrzak@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (John Pietrzak) (07/23/90)
I've just begun fooling around with GEM (with the invaluable help of Tim Oren's series on ST programming). After writing a short program which displayed multiple windows on the screen, I was dismayed to find that it was limited to only 7. Although I can't see me writing an application needing more than this, I was wondering whether there was some way to give the OS a little more space for windowing purposes (I have a mega 4, and I'm certain that there was more ram to spare after the seven windows were displayed). Thanks J P pietrzak@solarium.scl.cwru.edu
ericg@ucschu.ucsc.edu (Eric Goodman) (07/26/90)
In article <1990Jul23.133653.9285@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> pietrzak@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (John Pietrzak) writes: > After writing a short program which > displayed multiple windows on the screen, I was dismayed to find that it > was limited to only 7. Although I can't see me writing an application > needing more than this, I was wondering whether there was some way to give > the OS a little more space for windowing purposes (I have a mega 4, and I'm > certain that there was more ram to spare after the seven windows were > displayed). I believe the same OS limitations that only allow 6 desktop accessories keeps you from opening more than 7 windows. The OS can only address 8 different processes at once,so there's "no need" to be able to address more windows. With 6 desk accessories, one program and the desktop, you're out of room. --- Eric Eric Goodman, UC Santa Cruz ericg@ucschu.ucsc.edu ericg@ucschu.bitnet Eric_Goodman.staff@macmail.ucsc.edu ...!ucbvax!ucscc!ucschu!ericg