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From: cks@radio.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Planning for Shell 20.8M
Message-ID: <944@radio.toronto.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 88 05:24:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: radio.944
Posted: Sun Jan 31 00:24:16 1988
References: <8801221705.AA20640@decwrl.dec.com>
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In article <8801221705.AA20640@decwrl.dec.com> drew@cgofs.dec.com (Steve Drew) writes:
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:	1. $_titlebar variable, 
:	   --------------------
:	   - ability to set title bar via variable.
:	     eg. alias cd "%q \\cd $q; set _titlebar $_cwd"
:
:	   Problem, when quiting shell, the memory allocated for the titlebar
:	   variable is free'd, and next time someone clicks on the title it
:	   blanks out. What would be the best way to handle this? maybe
:	   AllocMem() the few bytes for the string, and never free it?

 I noticed this problem myself about two days after I posted my
modification to Hobie's patch. What I did was to save the old window
title on startup, and restore it on exit. I think doing that is better
than swiping some memory permanently for a title; I tend to run
recursive shells and shells from withing makefiles a lot, and would
hate to lose some memory each time. I agree that a _titlebar variable
is a cleaner way to do title bar changing than the cd/pwd hack.

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