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> Locked and changed?

That could do with some better wording. Normally the user can freely drag-resize the window, but after the program sets the width or height then the user will be unable to resize that axis. This is for, say, a list program where the screen contents would have a fixed width but a dynamic height, so you'd want to keep the height resizable (unlocked).

> You also seem to be using double to refer to two bytes

Double does mean a 16-bit value, yeah, there's a list of definitions on the main page of the user manual and specification. Short tends to be the expected name for a 16-bit value (from C et al.), but it doesn't make much sense for a short to be the wider of two values. I briefly considered word, but the definition is too broad, with a byte also being a type of word. Double felt like the most intuitive name, because it's double the width of a byte. There weren't really any other decent candidates.

> a individual device for each permission that you wanted to supply and have the host environment optionally provide them

That's more or less the plan, only with a bit more granularity depending on the implementation, so that you can, say, allow reading files but forbid writing or deleting.



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