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From: cmorgan@mentor.com (Clark Morgan  @ APD x4813)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: vt100 <-> DM help needed
Message-ID: <1989Jun16.212928.11933@mentor.com>
Date: 16 Jun 89 21:29:28 GMT
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Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation, Beaverton Oregon
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I have a CURSES application (vt100-based, by definition) in 
which I want to invoke the DM to edit/read a file.  I want
the DM pad to exactly overlay the window in which the CURSES
application is executing.

Sounds simple, right?  Just call the various pad_$ routines,
find the current application's window coordinates (in pixels)
and feed them to pad_$create_window....  Wrong.

None of the pad_$inq routines (or gpr_$inq routines, for that
matter) can be called from a vt100 environment.  These routines all
return the following error:

     stream is not a pad

(I tried inquiring via stdout, stdin, stderr).

I'm really stumped.  How do I determine the pixel coordinates
of the window (pad) in which a CURSES application is executing?
There has to be some way to do this.

If it matters, I'm using SR10.1.1.2 .

Help....


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            Clark O. Morgan -- Mentor Graphics Corp.
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