On 13 Jul 2011, at 13:10, Martyn Hill wrote: > > As part of an on-going SB Editor project in QPC/SMSQ-E, I am reseraching ways > to queue SB commands in to a daughter SB job. > > Extensions such as SG's QUEUE% or Turbo's TYPE_IN don't quite work for this > purpose as I need to queue the commands from another SB (eventualy Turbo'd) > job rather than into the current keyboard queue (as pointed to by SYS_CKYQ - > QUEUE% - or into the the #0 of the current job - TYPE_IN). > > So far, I've found no explicit documentation on where to find the type-ahead > buffer in SMSQ/E CON channels (only the SCR defintion block's are described > in detail), but my own digging around shows that the (serial queue) buffer > appears to sit at offset 152dec. ($98) from the start of a CON defintion > block (after all the SCR-like variables). > > So, my question, what is the offical/safest/most portable way to queue text > in to a given CON (#0 for daughter SB) channel belonging to another job? > > Thanks for any ideas/alternatives.
It looks as though TURBO's COMMAND_LINE should be extended to allow the option of picking a daughter basic. If that worked, TYP_IN should work too. George _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
