[Coco] splitting the screen

[L. Curtis Boyle]

On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:48:02 -0600, Gene Heskett  
<gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday 05 January 2010, Wayne Campbell wrote:
>> Does anyone on the list understand OS-9 windowing enough to give me a  
>> clue
>> as to how to split a screen? What I need is to be able to have  
>> everything
>> the user types show up in one part, and all other output to the screen  
>> in
>> the other, something liike this:
>>
>> +-----------------+
>>
>> |this is where all|
>> |output goes      |
>>
>> +-----------------+ <- what happens above does not go below this  
>> separator
>>
>> |user input here  |
>>
>> +-----------------+
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Wayne
>>
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> One would first have to construct the windows for that, then play with  
> the
> shell syntax when launching it so it used one window as the input, and  
> the
> other as the output.  Might be an interesting experiment. ;-)
>

Another possible way would be to use the display codes for CWArea (Change  
Working Area) to switch between the output and input windows, when  
required (if this is controlled from within a program).

-- 
L. Curtis Boyle