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From: Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (Marty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: using gets/printf in sunview
Keywords: Software
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Date: 24 May 89 12:54:49 GMT
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I want to use a panel of buttons to interpret options in a program,  which
in turn run subroutines which use the traditional unix mechanisms of
communications via gets and printf.  I've built a tty window and did the
appropriate calls to redirect stdin/out to the window.

I don't want to start building state machines to monitor the input tty
window.

I have no problem writing to a tty window -- how do I essentially implement
gets() to a tty window which actually does blocking.


I'd be happy to see a program which:
	1) builds a panel with one button
	2) builds a tty window
	3) in response to a mouse click, prompts the user for one line of input
and displays it in the tty window, using stdio.

I've went through the various examples in the manual and I can follow what
they're doing but I can't pull this all together so all the features I want
work at the same time.

marty
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