[Coco] Creating OS-9 Split Screens

[L. Curtis Boyle]

The procedure to do this is a bit different depending on whether you are doing it from a batch file/shell, or from within a program (the latter method is what GShell uses, of course). From the looks of things, I believe that you want to do this from a script, rather than from a program?

L. Curtis Boyle
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> On Jun 27, 2022, at 2:46 PM, coco--- via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> A OS9 question.
> 
> Aside from using Multi-Vue how can one easily divide up the screen.
> 
> IN "OS-9 LEVEL II volume 1:a beginners guide to windows the give an example code
> 
> wcreate -z
> /w1 -s=7 0 0 80 20 2 0 4
> /w2      0 20 80 4 2 7
> 
> I tried it. It did not work actually replaced /w1 with /w5 and /w2 with /w6 because my startup
> already opens /w1 and /w2 as full screen windows.
> 
> Creating split windows works just fine on the same system with gshell.
> 
> I am ruining a recent NitrOS9.
> 
> Has anyone ever made a program where you just answer some questions about the window setup you
> would like and the program spits out a script that will create such windows.
> Or a program that figures out what all the current open windows are and spits out a script to reproduce the same layout.
> 
> I saw another way of doing it involving the display command but that is not working either.
> 
> The actual screen I want is Type 8 split 14x40 character with "8x8" font and a second window underneath 10x40 characters. Don't care about the actual colors as long as readable and easy to know which window one is in.
> 
> Charlie
> 
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