begin  quoting Michael O'Keefe as of Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 07:37:15PM -0700:
> >Then why don't you go help them out since its so simple?
> >
> >I'm sure they'd love the help.
> 
> http://dn.codegear.com/print/28199
> 
> This is what I would think is all it would need
> Use of the XReparentWindow() function (that's all a WM does)
> 
> http://dn.codegear.com/print/28199
> 
> Now that makes it X11 only, so I have NFI what to do on other OSes.
> But there are other issues too. How does the browser, embedding the 
> editor inside itself, control where the editor saves files ?
> It prolly can't. And it would have to know where the editor saved the 
> file to be able to include it in the email.

And yet... mutt does it.

> So the problem is prolly not that they couldn't get any old editor into 
> TB, but how to control it once they did !
 
You invoke the editor on a file of your own choosing. When the editor
exits, you read the file in.

> Should be able to write a pretty small X11 app that takes 2 window Id's 
> and XReparentWindow()'s one into the other. xwininfo will tell you all 
> about the Window's in an app.

Hm... you're trying to connect to a running editor?

Hm. Shades of ARexx...

-- 
REXX wouldn't have been my first choice for a scripting glue language.
Stewart Stremler


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