[Coco] window surprise

[Bob Devries]

Willard,

on page 10-85 of the MultiVue manual, an example is given (with the correct 
spelling of the call). The comment is "acquire size of window".

As you probably already know, the OS9 manuals are full of errors; some bad, 
some (relatively) trivial.

Regards, Bob Devries
27º10'26"S,151º16'30"E

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willard Goosey" <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 10:14 AM
Subject: [Coco] window surprise


> I've been playing around with termcap & curses, and made an
> interesting and annoying discovery. (well, it's news to me!)
>
> A window's (/wX) COL, PAG, and ROW descriptor settings are not updated
> when the window is redefined!
>
> With people telnetting into CoCos with arbitrarily sized xterms curses
> needs to be able to find out what the screen size is.  I thought it
> would be in the descriptor but windint's behavior suggests not.
>
> So, does (nitr)OS-9 have a cannonical place that the terminal's screen
> size is stored?  Rather that terminal be a window, a serial port, or a
> Drivewire Network port.
>
> Willard
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