| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
| Total number of notes: | 19516 |
I have a customer who is trying to emulate an application. In order to do this he needs to read and write to active DECterms. He has already been able to get the root window id and use that to get at the windows (ie. DECterms ) beneath it, but there seems to be no way of getting at specific DECterms in order to perform I/O to them. When traversing down from the root window, is there a way of finding out which window is which ( ie. owner process etc. ). This seems pretty obscure to me and I'm not sure where we should stand on supporting something like this. Can anybody help ? Any info much appreciated Rich
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1724.1 | leave a trail | TOOLEY::B_WACKER | Mon Nov 13 1989 10:15 | 2 | |
When you create the decterm use the customization argument to give it a unique title that you can then key off of when searching the tree. | |||||
| 1724.2 | What is the customer trying to do? | HANNAH::MESSENGER | Bob Messenger | Mon Nov 13 1989 12:03 | 12 |
Re: .0 What kind of I/O does the customer want to do to the DECterm window? If the customer wants to write ASCII text to the window he needs the TW: device name, not the window ID. If he want to make Xlib calls on the window, make it clear that what he's trying to do is NOT supported and is likely to lead to problems. Some people have written programs that find the DECterm window ID in order to change the title. This shouldn't be necessary in DECterm V2 (VMS V5.3) because the title and icon name can be changed with escape sequences. -- Bob | |||||