Arnould Nazarian wrote:
> At this occasion Marcel even told us that in the Windows world it is up
> to the applications to redraw screens.

This is basically the case on all systems other than SMSQ/E.

> I do'nt know anything about programming Windows, but I remember very
> correctly that I was surprised about the way Windows needs the
> programmer to add unproductive code to their programs.

Well, why should Windows save 2 Megabyte of screen memory for a simple
editor if the few bytes of the text plus a few bytes of a routine that
draws the text on screen can do just fine, too?

Anyway, it's not unproductive code. You just write your code in a way
that it can not only draw your stuff once (i.e. the initial drawing)
but every time this is needed.

Marcel

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