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From: darren@cbmvax.commodore.com (Darren Greenwald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Console device's "Window Bounds Report" buggy?
Message-ID: <22733@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 27 Jun 91 14:31:43 GMT
References: <1991Jun26.025314.9658@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: darren@cbmvax.commodore.com (Darren Greenwald)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Jun26.025314.9658@crash.cts.com> bruceg@crash.cts.com (Bruce Geerdes) writes:
>I am writing an all-text program, using the console device.  Whenever the
>user resizes the window, I want to reformat the text.  So whenever I get a 
>NEWSIZE message I send a "window status request" (page 645 RKM Libraries & 
>Devices 1.3) to get the current row and column capacity of the window, but it 
>always returns the stats of the window's original size, not its current.  Has 
>anyone here gotten it to work?  

Hmm, I just tried this under 2.0 console.device works fine.  Are
you accounting for the fact that the length of the returned string
is variable (e.g., a window with a capacity of 9x9 returns a
shorter string than a window which is 40x40)?


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