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From: dz@casaba.ucsb.edu (Daniel James Zerkle)
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Subject: terminal start-up
Keywords: indexing terminal interface builder
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Date: 10 Aug 89 17:29:06 GMT
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After a lot of diddling around, I managed to get the
"one-button-calculator" described in the documentation
running happily.  I also wrote my own simple application
using similar methods to what's in the ref man.

The only problem is that these apps think that they need
a Terminal window from which to run.  If I click on their
icons (default icons, not custom) from the browser, they
start up a Terminal before running.  I want these things to
run on their own, as they don't need stdio.

What's going on, and what can I do about it?

Another problem:

Lots of applications (Digital Librarian, Browser, WriteNow) use
other applications (Preview, WriteNow, Edit, ...) to display files
and the like.  How can one application let another one know that
it should be doing something (including starting up, if necessary)?
I assume that some sort of messaging is going on, or perhaps the
receiving end gets an event.  How do you know what sort of messages
to send to any particular application?

In case you're wondering, I'm going to put together an application
which uses the indexing facilities to sift through troff files
and can display the corresponding PostScript files (ptroff -t)
with Preview.  It would be nice to use Digital Librarian to do
the job, but it just doesn't have the capabilities.  (Actually,
'twould be nice to just extend DL so it will search one file and display
another...perhaps in 1.0)

If anybody has any ideas about any of these things, or, better yet,
is working on something similar, I would like to start up a correspondence
(send mail).

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