[Coco] splitting the screen

Wayne Campbell asa.rand at gmail.com
Tue Jan 5 21:52:02 EST 2010


I have read that script many times. The default startup file is a few echos, 
and settime. I never found any other examples of opening windows or 
controlling them. The manual was insufficient.

Wayne

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Devries" <devries.bob at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] splitting the screen


> On the original distribution disk there was a script file that opened 
> several windows on one screen. Sorry, I forget offhand what it was called.
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Wayne Campbell" <asa.rand at gmail.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 10:38 AM
> Subject: [Coco] splitting the screen
>
>
>> Does anyone on the list understand OS-9 windowing enough to give me a 
>> clue as to how to split a screen? What I need is to be able to have 
>> everything the user types show up in one part, and all other output to 
>> the screen in the other, something liike this:
>>
>> +-----------------+
>> |this is where all|
>> |output goes      |
>> |                 |
>> +-----------------+ <- what happens above does not go below this 
>> separator
>> |user input here  |
>> +-----------------+
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Wayne
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