| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 577.1 | Sounds like BUSY, to me... | TINSEL::PHANEUF | TP Business Info Tech (Matt 11:12) | Tue Apr 11 1989 18:16 | 11 |
| Yeah, you're right. Gary Butenhof has a tool called BUSY in the METOO::TOOLSHED
that does exactly this for CCT's. Unfortunately, I doesn't work nearly as
flexibly in the VWS environment (sorry, Gary), or AT ALL (to my knowledge) in
the DECWindows environment. Nevertheless, the good DECWindows people would do
*WELL* to investigate the functionality of BUSY as a replacement to the rather
blah and useless screen that comes up when one PAUSEs a DECWindows session.
FWIW,
Brian
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| 577.2 | | STAR::MFOLEY | Rebel without a Clue | Tue Apr 11 1989 18:21 | 8 |
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Create a bitmap with DECpaint. Output XBM (X bitmap format) rather
than DDIF. Use the latest XSETROOT in DW_EXAMPLES and you can
put a bitmap in your pause window.
mike
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| 577.3 | dwpausemsg - Put Message in Pause Window | STAR::NOZELL | Language is a virus from Outer Space. | Tue Apr 11 1989 19:06 | 9 |
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Re: .0
Check out note 102.0 in Elktra::DW_Examples, dwpausemsg seems to be what you
want.
$ dwpausemsg -display nozvax::0 "I went home, you should too. -marc" -
-duration 24 -bg lightblue -fg black -border red
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| 577.4 | BUSY... you mean, *I* didn't write it? Musta been my evil twin... :-) | KALKIN::BUTENHOF | Better Living Through Concurrency! | Wed Apr 12 1989 11:16 | 26 |
| Gee, .1 was sure a shock... I hadn't realized I'd changed my name to "Gary" :-)
I dunno what you mean about BUSY being "less flexible" under VWS (it does
everything the CCT interface does, and better)... but I won't even ask, and I
don't want you to tell me, because... I don't care (I haven't used VWS for very
nearly two years, and I never will again).
I never did get around to enhancing BUSY to run under DECwindows, mostly because
it has an AST-driven interface (designed for CCT unsolicited character input,
and easily adaptable to UIS AST-driven input... but not at all adaptable to
DECwindows event polling loop). It would mean re-architecting everything from
scratch, and I've been (unfortunately) far too busy with work over the past few
years. Hopefully, the Session Manager will make BUSY obsolete just as Calendar
and DECplan are working on making TIMELORD (my other "best-seller" tool :-) )
obsolete.
On a more practical note, however, I HAVE seen a tool advertised (probably in
this conference) that claims to pop up a message window over the pause screen;
I've even seen it in use around here, though I haven't tried it myself. I've
also accidentally gotten Calendar alarm dialog boxes over my pause screen when
I took off for a meeting (which is just fine, since the Dismiss button appears
to be inactive until you exit pause... the calendar text serves as a perfectly
good message).
/dave
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| 577.5 | not all of us have full programming env. | CSSE32::LESLIE | Thirty three and a third | Wed Apr 12 1989 16:16 | 8 |
| re: dwpausethingy
please post the location of a .obj or .exe
thanks
andy
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| 577.6 | mrflex::sys$public:dwpausemsg.exe | MRFLEX::MILLER | Bush For President...Kate Bush! | Wed Apr 12 1989 16:29 | 10 |
| re: <<< Note 577.5 by CSSE32::LESLIE "Thirty three and a third" >>>
-< not all of us have full programming env. >-
I don't take *any* credit, can't even remember where I got it, but it's
pretty neat!
Regards,
== ken miller ==
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| 577.7 | | CSSE32::LESLIE | Thirty three and a third | Wed Apr 12 1989 16:32 | 2 |
| thanks!
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