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From: hagelin@pommac.lne.kth.se (Martin Hagelin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Programrunning from ACC ?
Message-ID: <1990Nov23.161821.21897@kth.se>
Date: 23 Nov 90 16:18:21 GMT
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Reply-To: hagelin@pommac.lne.kth.se (Martin Hagelin)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
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Hello Networld!

As a hardiskowner I often find it very irritating to open two windows every time
I want to use my editor, open four windows when I'd like to run another program,
etc. So I thought that arranging some kind of a menusystem would be good, and I
Ftp:ed several menuprograms, but I found out that they weren't so good either.
Every time I want to copy or move a file (as one does from the desktop), I have
to leave the menuprogram. 

But then I thought, why not write a menusytem that was contained in an ACC.

So, I started programming, and ran into trouble. How do you run a program from
an ACC ?

First I tried with shel_write(). Nothing happened. In the documentation I've
got, it says that the program will be run after the current application is
terminated. But the accessory application never terminates. Then I tried to
start another application inside the acc with appl_init, the shel_write, and
then appl_exit,  but nothing happened.

Pexec() worked with starting a program, but then after terminating and going
back to the desktop, everything got weird. The desktop didn't update and all
menus disappeared, etc.

And now I wonder, is there a way to start a program from an acc, and then how do
I do it ?

Martin
 


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Martin Hagelin				Internet: hagelin@lne.kth.se
Departement of Electrotechnology
Royal Institute of Technology
Sweden