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- From: mss2696@tamsun.tamu.edu (Mark Saum)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Some more suggestions for OS/2
- Keywords: suggestions for OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.150048.9130@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 15:00:48 GMT
- Article-I.D.: tamsun.1992Sep8.150048.9130
- References: <gershon.715924658@husc10>
- Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
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- In article <gershon.715924658@husc10> gershon@husc10.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon) writes:
- >Three more suggestions for OS/2 to add to my list:
- >
- >Two system applets:
- >
- >- a "make bootable disk" applet
- Already done.
- >
- >- a standard application installer / un-installer. Perhaps the WPS could
- >keep a table of all apps for this purpose? I imagine that the application
- >would come with some sort of information file to help the install program.
- >
- >- It would be nice if character mode applications could find out the screen
- >dimensions in characters from the operating system. I am thinking of two
- >examples: the first is Emacs for X, which uses an entirely character mode
- >interface, but runs inside and X window. When you resize the window, Emacs
- >adjusts to the number of characters that fit in the space. The other
- >program is Qmodem, which uses whatever video mode and number of characters
- >across and down that you happen to have on the screen when you start it.
- >It would be nice if, say, character mode Lotus 1-2-3 for OS/2, when run in
- >full screen mode, gave you an option for number of characters across and
- >down to use (a list it would get from the operating system). In a window,
- >the same character mode application would adjust the number of characters
- >based on the size of the window. (the obvious alternative for the same
- >application would be a scaled window, where the window had the same number
- >of characters regardless of size).
-
- The hooks for this are already in the system. The programmer just needs to
- be able to take advantage of this. Take a look in your programmers library
- under the AVIO calls.
-
- Generally, if you want a scalable window, you're just going to do it in a PM
- window, not in a VIO-type of window interface. It's also easier to implement
- in PM when you have a message-based program already.
-
- >
- > --Ethan Gershon
- > gershon@husc.harvard.edu
-
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