Re: [XForms] drawing into a foreign window

[Patrick]

Hi Guys

Just in case someone comes across this later. I had trouble with xterm 
but mlterm works fine.

I have to mlterms running in one window with  this:

mlterm --parent=123731972

I will have to experiment with xforms now.

Thanks again






On 12/28/2016 05:06 PM, Patrick wrote:
> Hi Jens, Hi Paul
>
> Paul, this looks like a good suggestion! and Jens's warning about it 
> is noted :)
>
>
> Hi Jens, I know what I am trying to do is weird, let me explain more.
>
> I really like COBOL and it's a good way to get beat up on mailing 
> lists. It's evolved a lot of the years but it's criticisms are decades 
> old and everyone seems to hate the language even if they know nothing 
> about it.
>
> Anyhow, it has ncurses built in and in it's screen section, you can 
> build text user interfaces really easily. Everything is tightly 
> integrated and because GnuCOBOL compiles to intermediate C rather then 
> Assembly, the runtime is small and hackable.
>
> I love-love this but I can't do 70% of what I want to do because I 
> don't have the ability to draw or add pictures.
>
> I understand the ncurses windows have no relation to X windows. The 
> thing is that in most cases the window that the terminal runs in is 
> just an X window and if I write TUI data to part of it and GUI data to 
> part of it, I should be able to have the best of both worlds. I 
> understand that they cannot mix in the same areas though.
>
> Thanks again-Patrick
>
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> On 12/28/2016 03:28 PM, Paul wrote:
> > Agreeing with all Jens' comments.
> >
> > You might try it the other way around.
> >
> > Create a window as usual using XForms.
> >
> > Get the Xwindow window ID of your window.
> >
> > Launch an xterm and use the -into option
> > of xterm to make it use your window.
> >
> > xterm -into window_id is intended to allow
> > embedding into other applications.  That
> > may be what you want?
> >
> > --
> > Paul Nicholson
> > --