Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!network!ucsd!hub!casaba!dz From: dz@casaba.ucsb.edu (Daniel James Zerkle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: terminal start-up Keywords: indexing terminal interface builder Message-ID: <2201@hub.UUCP> Date: 10 Aug 89 17:29:06 GMT Sender: news@hub.UUCP Reply-To: dz@cornu.ucsb.edu (Daniel James Zerkle) Distribution: usa Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara Lines: 39 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). | Dan Zerkle home:(805) 968-4683 morning:961-2434 afternoon:687-0110 | | dz@cornu.ucsb.edu dz%cornu@ucsbuxa.bitnet ...ucbvax!hub!cornu!dz | | Snailmail: 6681 Berkshire Terrace #5, Isla Vista, CA 93117 | | Disclaimer: If it's wrong or stupid, pretend I didn't do it. |