The Window Manager Technical Details

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• Polling
  • Overview
  • Masking Events
  • Null events
• General Principles
  • Overview
  • Compatibility
  • Responsiveness
  • Colour
  • Terminology
• The Mouse
  • Select and Adjust
  • Menu Button
  • Double Clicks
• Layout of Windows
  • Coordinate system
  • Window Stacks
  • Window Flags
• Window System Area
  • Title Bar
  • Close Icon
  • Back Icon
  • Toggle Size Icon
  • Adjust Size Icon
  • Iconize Icon
  • Vertical Scroll Bar
  • Horizontal Scroll Bar
  • Window Definition
• Redrawing Windows
  • Overview
• Updating Windows
  • Overview
• Taking over the Screen
  • Overview
• The Icon Bar
  • Overview
  • Registering an Icon
  • Mouse Clicks
  • Icon Dimensions
• Icons
  • Overview
  • Icon Definition
  • Icon Creating and Deleting
  • Icon Selection
  • Icon Sprites
• RISC OS System Icons
  • Overview
  • Icon Sets
  • Naming Convention
  • Icon Borders
  • Common Icons
  • Icon Design
  • Speed Optimisation
  • Colour Support
• Menus
  • Overview
  • Opening a Window
  • Creating a Menu
  • Mouse Clicks
  • Writeable Icons
• Dialogue Boxes
  • Overview
  • Opening a Dialog Box
  • Icons
• Window Panes
  • Overview
  • Definition
  • Usage
• Keyboard Input and Text Handling
  • Overview
  • Input Focus
  • Key Presses
  • Function Keys and Hot Keys
  • Special Characters
  • Escape Key
• Changing the Pointer
  • Overview
• Mode Independence
  • Overview
  • Usage
• Colour
  • Overview
  • 4-bit Colour
  • 24-bit Colour
  • Notification
• System Font
  • Overview
• Dragging
  • Basic Dragging Methodology
  • Mouse Clicks
  • Miscellaneous Information
• Applications and Documents
  • Overview
  • Loading an Application
  • Quitting an Application
  • Loading Documents
  • Saving Documents
  • Closing Documents
  • Creating Documents
  • Editing Documents
  • Inserting Documents
• Memory Management
  • Overview
  • Task Display
  • Memory Mapping
  • Memory Allocation
  • Memory Tips
• Template Files
  • Overview
  • Usage
  • Operating System Templates
  • Issues
• Application Resource Files
  • Overview
  • !Boot File
  • !Run File
  • !RunImage File
  • !Sprites File
  • !Choices File
  • !Help File
  • !Messages File
  • Template File
• Shared Resources
  • Overview
• Relocatable Modules
  • Overview
• Errors
  • Overview
  • Common Errors
  • Error Messages
• Time
  • Overview
  • Usage