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From: bojsen@moria.UUCP (Per Bojsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Console device's "Window Bounds Report" buggy?
Keywords: console.device window status report aux-handler AUX:
Message-ID: <196063c7.ARN389a@moria.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 91 14:09:59 GMT
References: <1991Jun26.025314.9658@crash.cts.com> <22746@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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In article <22746@cbmvax.commodore.com>, Carolyn Scheppner - CATS writes:

> In article <1991Jun26.025314.9658@crash.cts.com> bruceg@crash.cts.com
> (Bruce Geerdes) writes:
>
> > 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?
>
> I use the ConUnit instead.  In your console device IORequest structure,
> after you do OpenDevice, there will be an io_Unit pointer which is
> a pointer to a struct ConUnit.  WARNING - ConUnit structure is
> READ ONLY.  Some REAL handy things to read out of the ConUnit structure
> are:
>
> cu_XMax and cu_YMax   - the max X/Y character (not pixel) positions
>                         (ie. like 80 x 25)
> cu_XCP and cu_YCP     - the current cursor X/Y charactor position
>
On the other hand, if you're using the console.device to do a simple terminal
program for use as a terminal to a remote Amiga (using the Aux-Handler), you're
stuck with the window status request escape sequences, since the Aux-Handler
does not emulate the ConUnit structure.

For example, one version of Stevie used the ConUnit structure to get the
window size, but when run via the Aux-Handler over a serial line this does
not work.  I had to hack Stevie to use the window status request since that
would make the local console.device unit (being the terminal program window)
respond with *its* window size.  This works fine under 2.0.

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