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From: phi@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Philip Hingston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: mixing standard i/o with intuition messages
Message-ID: <3242@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 13 Jun 90 10:52:59 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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The subject line is basically my question: is it possible? Can I write
a command loop which acts on intuition (or other, e.g. arexx) messages
as well as reading lines from standard input?

Obvious failure:

		forever
			while a message is pending
				act on message
			read a line of input

See the problem?

A related problem: Can I set up a window in a custom screen for standard i/o?
If so, how?

If anyone can suggest a solution to either or both of these problems, it would
should save me a heap of time and trouble. The only solution I can see is to
re-implement the functionality of standard i/o myself based around intuition
messages, or the keyboard device? or maybe the console device?

If it helps any, the standard i/o can be attached to a different window
to the one generating the other messages.

The application is a logo interpreter. Standard i/o is a convenient way to
provide a command line type interface, and I also want to handle resizing
the graphics window, mouse clicks in the window, possibly menus, definitely
an arexx capability etc.


Thanks.		phi

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