Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!wind!sau
From: sau@wind.bellcore.com (Stephen A Uhler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Simple mouse/menu access
Keywords: terminal emulation, mouse pointing, windowing systems
Message-ID: <9719@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 24 Aug 88 13:27:31 GMT
References: <5613@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
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Reply-To: sau@bellcore.com (Stephen A Uhler)
Organization: Bellcore, Morristown, NJ
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In article <5613@ihlpf.ATT.COM> warren@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Montgomery) writes:
>I face a problem when porting an application into a new windowing
>system that strikes me as common, but few windowing systems provide
>a good solution for.  My appliction would like to use the mouse for
>pointing and menues, and take explicit control of a scrollbar if
>provided, but would otherwise like to treat the screen like a
>terminal. [text deleted]  What I'd really like is: [text deleted]

The MGR windowing system.  It permits application programs to
specify arbitrary strings to be sent to the application in response
to mouse hits and menu selections, on the same data stream as
keyboard input.

Instead of reqiring a special program to do terminal emulation,
terminal emulation is availiable in every window and may be restricted
to an arbitrary sub-rectangle within the window.  Thus you can have
scroll bars, banner lines (etc.) of your favorite size and still
take advantage of the built in terminal emulation.

Existing non-window applications can readily take advantage of
pop-up menus and mouse based positioning, simply by instructing MGR
what application keyboard commands to simulate in response to mouse
or menu selections.

You can get MGR via anonymous ftp from bellcore.com (or send mail
to mgr@bellcore.com if you can't).

Stephen Uhler
sau@bellcore.com