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| 2527.1 | | STAR::MFOLEY | Pump up the jelly | Wed Mar 28 1990 10:20 | 25 |
| >Why can't you cut and paste from the bookreader?
This is fully discussed in BULOVA::BOOKREADER
>customize the placement of all the windows on the screen
A complete solution isn't there yet but alot of things in VMS 5.3 allow
better customization. CREATE/TERM has X and Y positioning for example.
It's really up to each application. I too wish there was something.
>Background patterns
XSETROOT and things like that on the MIT tapes will put up
images and stuff. I suppose it's left as an exercise for the customer?
Look in ELKTRA::DW_EXAMPLES for some excellent examples. Something they
could buy today from ASSETS is UTOX. That MIGHT do what you want. I'm
not sure.. (I know you can put something up in the Pause screen with
UTOX)
>Is there a way to change the login banner?
There is in VMS 5.3. I can't remember exactly how too tho. I know
it's been discussed here.. Maybe someone else will remember.
mike
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| 2527.2 | DEFINE/SYSTEM/EXEC DECW$LOGIN_BACKGROUND... | SCAM::DIAL | | Wed Mar 28 1990 10:49 | 6 |
| DEFINE/SYSTEM/EXEC DECW$LOGIN_BACKGROUND xxx.com
Where "xxx.com" is a command procedure which runs any application that
can set the root window.
Barry
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| 2527.3 | | CSOA1::WILKINS | | Wed Mar 28 1990 12:59 | 13 |
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Thanks for the quick answers. If anyone has anything else to add,
please do!
Re: .2
How do you "undo" it if you want to get the Digital logo back?
Also, can you be a little more specific about the .com file to
run an application which "can set the root window?" Do you have
a simple example?
Thanks
Mark
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| 2527.4 | | DECWIN::FISHER | Prune Juice: A Warrior's Drink! | Wed Mar 28 1990 13:37 | 9 |
| Deasign the logical to get the default behavior back.
Set the root window: I don't have a program here, but just write an X program
which draws the company logo on the root window. That means that instead of
doing a CreateWindow to make a new window, you use an Xlib function to get the
id of the root and draw to that. It should be something like
XRootWindowOfDisplay...
Burns
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| 2527.5 | more on the com file... | GSRC::WEST | Variables don't, Constants aren't | Thu Mar 29 1990 21:08 | 34 |
| RE: <<< Note 2527.3 by CSOA1::WILKINS >>>
Just like .4 said, deassign the logical to get back the Digital logo.
As for the com file. This is a com file that is given to LOGINOUT.EXE
as an input qualifier. This means that the com file can do ANYTHING you
want it to, DECwindows or otherwise.
For example, if you would like the puzzle game to come up when you log
off you could do something like:
Create a com file:
$ set disp/crea/node=0/trans=local
$ run sys$system:decw$puzzle
$ set disp/delete
$ logoff
And if this com file has the name of DO_PUZZLE.COM then you would define
the logical like so:
$ define/sys/exec decw$login_background DO_PUZZLE.COM
Note that I have left off the full directory specification. You should
provide one.
When this is all set up you will get the puzzle game everytime you log off.
So let your imagination run wild... :^)
-=> Jim <=-
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| 2527.6 | | DECWIN::FISHER | Prune Juice: A Warrior's Drink! | Mon Apr 02 1990 17:12 | 5 |
| Do you have to set the display? If so, that is a problem...it should be
started with DECW$DISPLAY set to the appropriate display. Otherwise, you can't
do remote sessions (say on the DW Terminal).
Burns
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| 2527.7 | Not real sure... | GSRC::WEST | Variables don't, Constants aren't | Tue Apr 03 1990 21:52 | 11 |
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You know....I'm not sure. I would think not, I'm just in the habit of
always putting that command in my com files that do DECwindows sorts of
things. Since the device is created in usermode is supposedly goes away
when the device ref count is zero.
I'll have to do some testing...or someone else probably already knows the
answer to this one.
-=> Jim <=-
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