** Reply to message from WD Loughman <wdloughman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Mon, 08 May
2006 12:32:58 -0700
>Sorry 'bout this tardy response.
>
>John Small wrote:
>> ** Reply to message from WD Loughman <wdloughman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Mon, 01
>> May
>> 2006 12:34:15 -0700
>>
>> I'm not sure I understand this. Are you saying that when you use CTRL+C to
>> terminate JBSWU, that one version of JBSWU closes the window and another does
>> not?
>
>No, no. When I invoke the monitor by command-line *from within a
>command-line window*:
>1) The monitor opens (in a new[?] NON-resizable window), and
>2) the original command-line window goes away.
It is not a new window.
>Perhaps it's resizing the original, then hi-jacking it. The *effect* is
>as though it closed. What's left after closely the monitor isn't useful.
This is correct.
I, too, find this window generally unuseable. But I do use it on occasion to
SET various environment variables (which are used by JBSWU to generate
debugging info). Then I restart JBSWU with this new environment.
>When I open almost any other application _via_ command-line, it opens in
>its own window *and* the original CLI window remains open, pushed back
>"below" the application's window.
>
>When I close the application (its window disappears), my original CLI
>window is exactly where I left it, exactly *as* I left it.
>
>I do this, and see this, all the time with E.exe, EPM.exe, PMView.exe,
>Mozilla.exe, Firefox.exe, etc ad infinitum.
The key issue is that all the example you cite are PM programs. REXX programs,
on the other hand, run in the same window in which they are initiated.
I will change my program so that it will allow you to resize the window back to
its original dimensions. (This would be done through the MODE command, as
Rodney has already suggested.) Unfortunately I do not know how to cause the
window to be resized back to original dimensions. My new JBSWU will only make
it possible to resize the window (Note the scroll bars you will see). You will
still have to resize the window manually.
In summary, to deal with the too-small-to-be-useful window problem, the options
are:
1) Have JBSWU use a full window for display (so there is no size issue).
This would require some reprogramming and a consensus agreement for this change
among JBSWU users.
2) Return the window back to its original size
2a) Enable a resize with an appropriate MODE command. (The next JBSWU will
do this automatically.)
2b) Manually resize the window with the mouse or keyboard.
3) Do not use the reduced-size window after JBSWU terminates.
3a) Start it in a way that causes the window to close automatically after
the program exits. This involves using the /c parameter. For example, from a
CLI window use:
start /f /c jbswu_monitor <parameters>
or, if you want to control the title bar text of the window,
start "<put your title here>" /f /c jbswu_monitor <parameters>
This is the closest way to simulate the behavior you see with the PM apps. The
"start" leaves the existing window open (and normal-sized) and run JBSWU in
another window of its own, the "/f" (which is optional) runs it in the
foreground, and the /c cause the new JBSWU window to close when JBSWU exits.
3b) If you forget or choose not to use 3a, then execute "start /f & exit"
within the reduced size window after JBSWU has exited. This will cause a new,
full-sized window to appear and the reduced size window to close. (Option 2 is
probably easier than this.)
>> Then I moved the 4OS2 files into the path and just put 4OS2.EXE in the "Path
>> and file name" setting. This worked well.
>
>I'd imagine it might seem to, if you've not enhanced 4OS2 with various
>colors for characters and backgrounds.
Does the latest JBSWU still have the display anomalies when run under 4OS2 with
your color customizations? If yes, could you explain how to set these colors
under 4OS2? (I'd prefer not to have to learn this on my own just to fix this
bug.)
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John Small
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