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From: tenney@well.UUCP (Glenn S. Tenney)
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Subject: Re: Creating NEWCLI
Message-ID: <764@well.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 13:56:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 13 13:56:59 1986
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References: <357@gargoyle.UUCP> <444@3comvax.UUCP>
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In article <444@3comvax.UUCP> mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz) writes:
> ...                      What Ed is doing wrong is that he is passing the
>address of an intuition window structure to Execute() which is expecting a
>pointer to a FileHandle structure...  I looked at the possibility of building
>my own FileHandle structure, but the AmigaDos documentation I have is thin in
>this area, and the folks at Commodore Amiga seem reluctant to open this messy
>can of worms to the public - I don't blame them.

A part of what you're asking seems to be "what is the window for the
CON:  or RAW: I opened?"   We needed to do that too and found the
published way to do just that, but it didn't work.  If you look in the
AmigaDOS developer manual (or reference manual) that discusses the DOS
packets, you will find that a diskinfo request to your raw: will return
the window pointer (I know, I never would have guessed it either!).  We
reported this bug months ago and were told to expect it to be fixed in
1.2.   Of course, this doesn't take care of the case where you opened
your own custom screen and then want a raw: in that screen.  Hmmm,
maybe it opens the window in the current active screen?  There are many
good uses for a raw: window mixed with graphics and faster text,
sigh...


-- Glenn Tenney 
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