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Developer:	Stefan Becker
Homepage:	http://obligement.free.fr/articles/integrer_euae_ambient.php
Readme:	Short: Emulate program starting from WB (V2.2) Author: stefanb@yello.ping.de (Stefan Becker) Uploader: stefanb yello ping de (Stefan Becker) Type: util/libs Version: 2.2 Replaces: util/libs/WBStart*.lha Requires: OS 3.0 (V39) or better Architecture: m68k-amigaos Kurz: Emuliere Programmstart von der WB (V2.2) WBStart is a package to emulate the Workbenchs' method of starting programs. Emulating this method seems to be easy on the first look, because you only have to load a program, create a process and then send a Workbench startup message to it. But complications arise from this startup message. It contains pointers to memory and directory locks owned by your process and it will not be returned until the newly created Workbench process exits. So your process can't quit until ALL Workbench processes which have been started by your process are finished. If you don't wait the replied messages will go into nowhere land and the man from India will visit you. WBStart solves this problem by using a handler process, which loads the program, creates the process, sends the message and then waits for the reply. You just supply all needed information like program name and arguments in a library call. The handler copies this information so your program can free its resources and exit. Changes since WBStart 2.1: - Added "Caveats" and "Credits" section. - Added Assembler and Oberon support files. - Clarified directory lock usage in AutoDoc entry for WBStartTagList(). - Fixed problems with softlinks and project icons introduced in 2.1. - Now uses dospath.library for AmigaDOS path list handling.
Upload Date:	Aug 16 2017
Category:	System/Libs
Download:	WBStart.libray_2.2.lha
Size:	26 KB
Downloads:	790
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