Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!brambo!camtwh!morgan
From: morgan@camtwh.UUCP (Morgan W. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Open a console window from Lattice
Message-ID: <207@camtwh.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 89 16:39:52 GMT
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Reply-To: morgan@camtwh.UUCP (Morgan Jones)
Organization: Orama Incorporated, Toronto, Canada.
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If anyone is interested, last weekend I sat down and hacked up a
couple of routines (in Manx) to handle console stuff much like stdio
stuff.  I won't say it's great code, but it might be interesting for
people who would like to get a complete example.

Synopsis is as follows:

#include "console.h"

CON *OpenConsole(top,left,width,height,title,window_flags)
int top,left,width,height;
char *title;
int window_flags;

int ReadConsole(console,buf,len)
CON *console;
char *buf;
int len;

int WriteConsole(console,buf,len)
CON *console;
char *buf;
int len;

int CloseConsole(console)
CON *console;

NB: Yes, these routines do automatically create the window.

I made these because I wanted to be able to run multiple console
windows without screwing around with stuff.  Next, I need to come up
with a way to have to replies from CMD_READ routed to a different
msgport (so that I can have N devices of differing types all sending
input to a common port to be processed - this way I avoid having to
poll everything and all of the devices are nicely abstracted).
-- 
Morgan W. Jones					(morgan@camtwh)
Orama Incorporated, Toronto, Canada.		(416) 369-5088