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- From: DMAHONEY@vax.micron.com
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Subject: cmd/shelltool questions
- Message-ID: <y95ek2y@openlook.Unify.Com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 14:35:29 GMT
- Sender: news@Unify.Com
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- I am working on window applications for a Sparc IPC (4.1.x, OW2, olwm)
- that is the front-end interface to a production machine. As such, my
- "user" is completely unsophisticated, barely versed with computers,
- much less Unix or X.
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- I have an application, a script, that uses shelltool, but invariably an
- operator either closes the window into an icon (and wonders why the
- machine seems to loop) or the operator quits the window before the proper
- data is entered. I've been considering switching this application to
- an Xview program, using a popup window and a data check that pops the window
- back up if the data is wrong (or missing). Unfortunately, a popup window
- doesn't really allow you to force feed the user and opening up a popup window
- (and its respective data check) for each of several options is not doable,
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- again due to the confusion of the operators.
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- Is there any way to run a force-feeding (step-by-step) script in a popup window?
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- Also, a source of much aggravation is the fact that our only non-cleanroom
- access to the Sparcs are ASCII terminals. Is there anyway to save
- a console/cmdtool/shelltool window remotely from an ASCII terminal (using
- remotely-issued mouse commands?) (Actually, the ability to do any
- sequence of remote mouse/keyboard commands would be invaluable.)
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- A last problem (irritation) is the curious behavior where if you make
- a window "Full" (or double click on the header) and fill the larger window
- with text and then make the window "Normal" (ie. small), the text you see
- is the text that was at the top of the window, not the stuff at the bottom.
- For console and error-logging windows, the most recent data (at the bottom
- of the window) is most important and having to drag the scrollbar to the
- bottom after every "Full"-"Normal" sequence is irritating. Is there some
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- resource that can be set?
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- Thanks in advance for any insight into any of this. Please respond
- by email and if there is sufficient response, I will summarize.
-
- --Dale Mahoney
- Micron Semiconductor dmahoney@vax.micron.com
- Boise, ID
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