On 4 May 2002, at 23:56, P Witte wrote:
Because I want to control my own button I dont want to use the BUTTON_SLEEP
utility but the locking and removal bit, without apparently upsetting the
windows in any way is what Im after.
Hi - I'm a bit in a hurry today, so no reply at leangth - on
Am 04.05.2002 15:34:54, schrieb Marcel Kilgus [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Most people however seem to use their own routines for putting jobs to
sleep (i.e. don't rely on the thing). Thus I don't suspect there's any
deep hack involved. I've never done this myself, though, maybe others
can elaborate on
No idea about the state of documentation for this though.
I guess it down to RTFB.
Per
Probably what Jonathan Hudson refers to in his manuals as the QDOS
official secrets act
You often find that for these things there often exists no formal
documentation, but they do crop up in passing in
P Witte wrote:
Could someone provide the French translations too, please. Any other
languages? American, perhaps ;)
Tony usually produced three language versions only (English, German,
French).
Im aware of the the method of closing windows, applying to the
button frame for room to open a
Wolfgang Uhlig wrote:
Most people however seem to use their own routines for putting jobs to
sleep (i.e. don't rely on the thing). Thus I don't suspect there's any
deep hack involved. I've never done this myself, though, maybe others
can elaborate on this (Wolfgang?).
You don't mean me, do
Marcel Kilgus writes:
What's system asleep? The button frame is still called the same in
I have no idea. In Thierry's ACP one configuration item asks you to
supply the name for system asleep. Perhaps its local to ACP.
Aha, ACP 4 doesn't have that option.
Not surprised. It was FI2 v3.31
Is there a standard way to put a job to sleep? I notice that jobs
like Qpac
Files, QD, al close down their working windows and open a new
button-sized
window on the Button Frame (where available) . However the BT_SLEEP
utility
(a Qpac2 Thing) can put any job to sleep. It does NOT close the job's
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The QPTR examples (? by Tony Tebby) that were distributed with C68 had a
function menu_button that just unset a main window definition and placed a
suitably named button in the frame. Waking was just the reverse. The QPAC2
code was not used.
Christopher Cave
Dilwyn Jones writes:
Is there a standard way to put a job to sleep? I notice that jobs
like Qpac
First did you mean BUTTON_SLEEP?
Yes. Sorry.
the BUTTON_SLEEP program puts any reasonably behaved job to sleep, by
locking the job's windows, removing them from the display and then
Christopher Cave writes:
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The QPTR examples (? by Tony Tebby) that were distributed with C68 had a
function menu_button that just unset a main window definition and placed a
suitably named button in the frame. Waking was just the reverse. The QPAC2
code was not
Marcel Kilgus writes:
Just dug out one of the assembler PE programs I wrote (in 1993! Man,
time moves on). It does just use the QPAC2 thing for this job, quite
simple actually. However, and that's the unfortunate part, the name of
the thing got actually translated. Back then my program did
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