Wimp_SetIconState block

[Tony van der Hoff]

On 25 Aug 2002, in message <e6168e6b4b.druck at druck.freeuk.net>,
David J. Ruck <druck at druck.org.uk> wrote:

> On 25 Aug 2002 Philip Ludlam <philip at philipnet.com> wrote:
> > Whilst programming with OSLib I discovered that OSLib didn't define a
> > block suitable for the Wimp_SetIconState SWI.
> > 
> > I quickly whipped up:
> > typedef struct wimp_set_icon_state_block
> > { wimp_w w;
> >   wimp_i i;
> >   wimp_icon_flags eor_bits;
> >   wimp_icon_flags clear_bits;
> > } wimp_set_icon_state_block;
> > and have been using it without a problem.
> > 
> > Is there a reason why OSLib doesn't have a similar definition (does it
> > expect you to use the oslib call rather than set up a block and call the
> > SWI yourself) or is it just an omission?
> 
> There is the wimp_set_icon_state(), but strangely instead of taking a block
> like the majority of other APIs, it takes 4 parameters saves them on to the 
> stack and makes the SWI call. This is going to be less efficent where
> multiple calls are required, so please can we have block taking variant.
> 
SWI Wimp_SetIconStateFromBlock and TYPE Wimp_SetIconStateBlock are now
defined.

Help_FullMessageRequest, Help_FullMessageReply, Help_FullMessageEnable are
now defined.

The changed files are available from CVS at SourceForge.
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