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Subject: Re: More 1.4 wishes. "If you wish upon ..."
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Date: 24 Mar 89 19:33:22 GMT
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Reply-To: porkka@frith.UUCP (Joseph A Porkka)
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In article <12104@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
>
>1) A 'CON:' with :
>	a) Text memory buffer of user-definable size.
>	b) A scroll gadget for accessing the above.
>	c) Builtin clipboard support.
>		Maybe just support text.
>		Maybe just ascii text that is font independent.
>	d) Redirect output of clipboard (or buffer or displayed part of buffer)
>		using mouse at least.
>	e) Be able to turn these features off or use two different 'CON:'s
>		(Like Sun's Command Tool and Shell Tool)

I have been working on the design for the above. It would include a menu
that allows you to select which options you want, and allow expanding
the menu for extras that you think of.
It would also support some environment variables for selecting options
by default.
*****
**
**** A problem I have not yet figured out, how does the normal
console.device connect itselft to a window????

From my humble experiments, it does not appear to change the Window
structure. Setting the RAWKEY IDCMPFlag keeps the console from
getting anykeyboard info though....

Any help anybody?

> ... stuff deleted
>3) Sockets (pipes). Dup filedescriptors.
>
>	Not just for a shell (be nice), but for launching your own stuff.
>	Makes simulations/debugging, other stuff much easier.

Easily done with MsgPort's and Messages, any they are *much* lower on
overhead. With carefull placement of Forbid()/Permit() you can
be sure that the MsgPort won't dissapear before you send a message, and
you can be sure you won't get any messages before you remove the port.



Please anybody send info about how the console.device attaches 
itself to a window.
Even if it will break in 1.4, I promise I won't tell anybody else how its
done.


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