Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

470.0. "Difficulties with DECTerm and DECW$TERMINAL_DEFAULT.DAT" by AKO455::SHEPRO (NOW what'd I do?) Thu Mar 23 1989 15:38

I and my users are experiencing some strange things with Decterm and customizing
Decterm.  Most everybody is running VWS/LAT - Version of  3-FEB-1989 13:16.  

VWS/LAT is started in the following fashion:

        CHILD/IMA=SYS$SYSTEM:LOGINOUT/PAU:10/NOPASS/x=300/y=600/PAGE=7 -
         /process="LAT"/ititle="LAT"/title="LAT"/shrink -
         /INPUT=FA$UPDATE:VWSLAT.COM

and FA$UPDATE:VWSLAT.COM is

$ define/user sys$input sys$output
$ run sys$system:vwslat.exe
$ logout

As a new user, I am inclined to try customizing my screen.  Sometimes I may 
customize a screen created by VWSLAT.  The next time I log in to a D.W. session,
my DECTerm screen created by the session manager has put the name of the node
into the Icon and the titlebar, the nodename that the "customized screen" was
connected to.

I will go and edit DECW$TERMINAL_DEFAULT.DAT to remove the references to the
nodename and then other things start happening.

For example, If you notice from the code that starts the VWSLAT process/window,
I am placing the screen in a specific location with a page size of 7.  When I 
log back into the sessions manager, the lat process is created, but not where
I requested, and not with a page size of 7, and not with a title or Icon-title
of LAT.

Only if I delete DECW$TERMINAL_DEFAULT.DAT does ny next session come up the way
I set it up.

Some of the customizations that my users are doing are asking for screens 48
lines, setting terminal attributes (VT340, VT240, etc).  In fact, I can saftly
say that most possible setting are being tested.

Any Ideas??
 

	Create seperate setup files and use the /SETUP=filename in CHILD.

	I startup VWSLAT this way:

!
$  CHILD/SHRINK/ITITLE="Lat"/TITLE="DECwindows LAT"/process="LAT" -
        /x=235/y=0/nobroad/page=10/setup=[foley.decw]decw$lat.dat -
        /insert "RUN SYS$SYSTEM:VWSLAT"

And the file [foley.decw]decw$lat.dat looks like this:

*foreground: White
*background: MidnightBlue

	Works peachy for me..

							mike

Computers do what you say, not what you want.  CHILD gave your window a
certain set of customizations, based on what you said on the CHILD
command line.  Likewise VWSLAT gave it's windows some customizations,
then add the ones made by the user, and when you perfrom a "save current
settings" operation, all of these customizations are saved.