Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU!MQUINN%UTCVM From: MQUINN%UTCVM@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: AppleWorksGS Terminal Emulation Message-ID: <9010291818.AA16128@apple.com> Date: 29 Oct 90 15:38:52 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 35 On Thu, 18 Oct 90 15:27:56 GMT David C. Whitney said: >In article <1990Oct18.135317.29691@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> rnf@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Rick > Fincher) writes: >>SnowTerm used the text screen for speed, note that it does have a menu > >I thought it used teh SHR screen to get fancy vt100 capabilities like blinking >and real double-sized chars. I haven't used it since I never got it to work >right on my machine. It does use the SHR screen. I'm using it right now and no way, is this a text screen. >It may not be so much of a challenge in terms of coding, rather it might >be more so in terms with keeping in line with the Human Interface >Guidelines. It could be quite shocking to some poor dope if his menu >bar vanishes, along with all of his other windows. The REAL solution, >of course, is to have a bigger screen... One way around this is to have a 'vanishing' meny bar. The menu bar only shows up when the mouse happens to be top 13 or so lines and vanishes when the mouse moves down from the menu bar, revealing what's behind it. I assume the same could be done with the scroll bars too. >-- >Dave Whitney | I wrote Z-Link and BinSCII. Send me bug >Computer Science MIT 1990 | reports. I need a job. Send me an offer. >dcw@goldilocks.lcs.mit.edu | My opinions, you hear? MINE! >dcw@athena.mit.edu | "Isn't this where..." ____________________________________________________________________ |CENSORED CENSORED CENSORED C | | |ED CENSORED CENSORED CENSORED CEN| BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm | |ENSORED CENSORED CENSORED CENSOR| pro-line: | |ORED CEBSORED CENSORED CENSORED C| mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com | |____________________________________|_______________________________|