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From: rlk@chinet.UUCP (Richard L. Klappal)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Re: Help needed on 7300 windows, forms, menus
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Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 00:17:08 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  4 00:17:08 1985
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In article <770@rtech.UUCP> daveb@rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes:
>I would appreciate it immensely if someone could post some code that
>actually uses the 7300's windowing, expecially by using the form(3) and
>menu(3) library routines.  The example programs in the manual don't
>work. They always seem to zap the current (eg., the shell) window rather
>than creating a new one.
>
>It also seems that the tam wgetsel() always returns junk.  Am I on drugs
>or is something funny going on here?
>

The form/menu/etc. calls all assume you are running from the user agent
(ua), which will clean up the mess automatically when your call exits.
Try creating a dimensionless window before using form() or menu(),
but after winit().  Then wexit() will return to the dimensionless window
setting on its way out, and leave you with a full screen, not the little
box in the middle.

Sorry I don't have any code here, (my home system isn't the 7300).  I'll
try to remember some code tomorrow, and post some short examples.


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