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From: ins_ajsk@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Jon Kay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: window help
Message-ID: <794@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 17 Feb 89 04:33:07 GMT
References: <23793@pbhya.PacBell.COM> <20428@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: ins_ajsk@jhunix.UUCP (Jon Kay)
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In article <20428@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) writes:
>In article <23793@pbhya.PacBell.COM> hbit@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Henry Bitter) writes:
><I am trying to get a small C program working that is using both Intuition and
><DOS. My problem is after creating my own screen and window the output that is
><created using printf commands still goes to the workbench screen and window.
>
>	...
>
>Now, if someone knows of a way supported by CBM of getting a
>FileHandle pointing to a window after you've opened a file, that would
>very usefull. I'd like to see it if you know how.
>
>	<mike
>--
There is one.  Unfortunately, I am not within reach of my manuals at
the moment, so I cannot be as specific as I would like, but here goes:

If you do a FileInfo or an Info on a CON: window, one of the fields
DOES return a pointer to the Window structure of that particular CON:.
Unfortunately, I don't remember which field it is.  It's in either the
AmigaDOS Reference Manual or the Amiga Technical Manual, in the
descriptions of DOS calls or DOS packet types, respectively.

It is also possible, using BeginIO/SendIO type calls, to set up a
console around a Window of your creation.  But you can't perform
printf's on it, but have to stick with write()-type calls (unless you
happen to have _doprnt() - type code sitting around...).

Hope this helps.  If you don't have the manuals mentioned above, write
me and I'll send specifics, or post if the amount of desperation out
there seems to warrant it.


					Jon Kay