On Wed, 24 May 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> On Tue, 23 May 2000, Duncan Simpson wrote:
>
> >
> > A little termcap reading shows that some older hadrware also has a set title
> > feature (with moderately different control sequences from xterm). lynx
> > couldtest hs to test for support and use ts fro instructions on how to do it.
> >
> > >From the termcap man page
> >
> > hs Has a status line
> > ds Disable status line
> > ts Move cursor to column %1 of status line
> >
> > in xterm, and presumably others, sending <ts>Ritle<BEL> sets the staus line
> > (aka xterm title). You could cut ts off the beginning of ds and take the rest
> > as the end of the title string if you felt the need. Title setting code could
> > be as simple as
> >
> > void set_title(const char *t)
> > {
> > char *ts;
> >
> > if (tgetent("hs") && (td=tgetstr("ts", NULL))!=NULL)
> ^^ ts
> > {
> > tputs(ts);
> > fputs(t, stdout);
> > fputc('\007', stdout);
> > }
> > }
>
> Thank you very much for this nice hint. Since there is no comment from Tom,
> I assume it will work fine (so I won't test for existance of $WINDOWID).
One more question - is it safe to write the title string longer that number
of columns (seems it's OK for xterm since different font could be used for
window title) - will the long title "wrap" to next line on hardware that
supports setting titles?
Best regards,
-Vlad
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