By James Gosling
This booklet is an creation to information: the Networked, Extensible, Window method from solar Microsystems. it truly is orientated in the direction of those that have a easy wisdom of programming and window structures who wish to comprehend extra approximately window structures regularly and information particularly. a good portion of the e-book is dedicated to an outline and background of window structures. whereas there's sufficient aspect the following to permit readers to jot down easy information functions, the scoop Reference guide [SUN87a] can be consulted for a extra whole remedy. This booklet was once written to consult the scoop 1. 1 product, on hand from sunlight and likewise on hand from a number of non-Sun providers. presently after this ebook is released, sunlight could be liberating the following model of latest- the Xll/NeWS merged window method. bankruptcy 10 is devoted to an outline of that product, yet Xll/NeWS merits a publication of its personal. the entire code examples during this publication were confirmed on either information and the Xll/NeWS merge. should still there be one other version of this booklet, we'll speak about many of the new improvement being performed within the consumer interface device equipment region on information. considerably, the scoop improvement surroundings (NDE) is now being constructed at sunlight; NDE offers to eclipse present person interface toolkit designs and window programming environments.
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A B I Dam~ged pa~ of A needing repair. 14. Partially visible window, A, being uncovered. The shaded area shows the portion of the window which was damaged as a result. Managing the screen area also includes managing damage repair. Applications may draw into windows which are completely or partly hidden by other windows. If the obscuring window is removed, the pixels in the newly revealed area must be changed from showing the image of the old window to showing the image of the new window. The pixels are said to be damaged.
In a single process environment, these different applications have to be fused together into one program. In some cases, tricks such as DOS's "terminate and stay resident" can be used to stitch together disparate applications, but these are only suitable for small desktop accessories. Because there is one address space, an application with a bug in it can "crash" not just itself, but the entire computer system. 26 These simple systems normally lack virtual memory. Without it, there is a fixed limit on how large an application can grow, thereby limiting the application functionality.