How to Freeze up Your HP' and Other Secrets of the Wait(-1) Command

[cyrille de brébisson]

Hello

> The button areas most emphatically do get special treatment

Yes, they do, you are correct.
<Behind the scenes>
The screen is composed of a number of graphical objects arranged in a tree like structure (as in Windows).
The Cmenu object (located at the bottom of the LCD) has an 'Imediate Click' flag turned ON.
This flag allows for a touch down on the CMenu to be imediately 'understood' as a click instead of having to wait for the touch UP. This allows the Menu to react much faster to user input as the action associated with a button click is imediate, not delayed. This participate in the overall feeling of 'snipiness' of Prime.

Problem: The system, ad described above is organized in this hierachy of bitmaps, as I said, like any windowing system.
HOWEVER, users programs do NOT have access to it, you see the screen as just 1 large bitmap. This is at the same time for ease of creating simple programs AND for backward compatibility wiht the 39.

These 2 'views' of the world do conflict, and the case of the menu area reaction to touch event is one of them...

I appologize, but I do not, at this point have an easy solution for the problem (trust me, if I had found one, I would have implemented it).

</Behind the scenes>

I hope that this helps.. Sorry that it is not in the documentation. There is just so much that would need to be documented, and so little time... I mean, would you rather have us develop new stuff or spend the next 2 years documenting what we already have?

However, never hesitate to ask questions, we will do all we can to answer them.

Cyrille