Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!bloom-beacon!mintaka!yale!think!samsung!usc!rutgers!mcnc!rti!sas!walker From: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: CreateProc.. Help!!! Message-ID: <1614@sas.UUCP> Date: 14 Mar 90 16:09:31 GMT References: Reply-To: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker) Distribution: na Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC Lines: 23 In article bartz@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Edward Bartz) writes: > > Help!!!! I am tring to create a process from within a device >driver. I want the process to among other things be able to open >a con window and display output. As a base, I started with the No can do. A device driver is a TASK, not a PROCESS. I handle this by having an external program open the CON: window and pass the handle to the driver, then using the DOS packet interface to read and write the window. Of course, I only use mine for debugging, so it's not too much hassle to do this. If you need to be able to pop up a window at any time, I suggest having an external process server waiting around to open windows for you on request (requests obtained via message ports). Alternatively, you can open the window via intuition.library and read and write it the hard way. ***** =*|_o_o|\\=====Doug Walker, Software Distiller====== BBS: (919)382-8265 = *|. o.| || NOTE NEW BBS NUMBER!^^^^^^^^ | o |// Got mole problems? Call Avogadro: 602-1023! ====== usenet: ...mcnc!rti!sas!walker plink: dwalker bix: djwalker