Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

2679.0. "Strange behaviour of DECwTermPort routine" by HAMOP::UWEH () Fri Apr 27 1990 16:12

	Hi folks

	We're trying to customize our file view or session manager menue
	to offer a SET HOST 'node'. We want to use the procedures documented
	in VMS 5.2 RELEASE NOTES Pg 4-19 + 4-20. Our system runs VMS 5.3 with
	DECWindows 2.0 an we use VAX-C 3.1.

	Now, we modified the program to use setup file in DECwTermPort routine.
	It looks like :
		status = DECwTermPort(display,"setup_file",0,device_name,
				&device_length)
	where setup_file is the complete file name of the resource file
	containing entries
		DECW$TERMINAL.title test
		DECW$TERMINAL.iconName test .
	The result of RUN CREATE_DECTERM show a new window with default decterm
	title and iconName.

	Using 
		status = DECwTermPort(display,0,
		     "DECW$TERMINAL.title test\n DECW$TERMINAL.iconName test\n"
			,device_name,&device_length)
	works fine.

	A third approach was to pass the customize parameter by argument vector
	instead of the variable display.

	The DECwTermPort call now looks like
		status = DECwTermPort(0,0,customize,device_name,&device_length)
	where customize is defined as : customize = argv[1] instead of display.
	Now we do a
		MCR CREATE_DECTERM DECW$TERMINAL.iconName:test\n
	and end up with a new window and default iconName.
	A MCR CREATE_DECTERM DECW$TERMINAL.title:test\n
	gives us a new pretty window with a title of "test".

	What's going on here ?
	We don't understand why the first approach fails, the second works and
	the third partly works.

	Any ideas ?

	Uwe and Norbert
    

Re:.0

I don't understand it either. All three versions should fail, because you left
off the colon in the resource definition.

	DECW$TERMINAL.title: test

Other people have also reported problems using setup files.  It's on the list
of problems to be investigated.

				-- Bob