Re: [StrongED] Taskwindow alias

[Ron <ronanon@xxxxxxxx>]

In article <3a5610c456.fjgraute@xxxxxxxxx>,
   Fred Graute <fjgraute@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <56c3e9df2bronanon@xxxxxxxx>
>           Ron <ronanon@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I thought I might be able to temporarily bypass the StrongEd  Taskwindow in
> > favour of Edit by using 
> > %Taskwindow "..."  
> > or 
> > unset alias$taskwindow
> > but I still have to quit StrongEd from the the iconbar.

> Communication with Taskwindows is via Wimp messages which means running
> applications will be given first shot. If there's no response from a
> running application then the alias is used.

> > Maybe there is a way to explicitly run Edit's taskwindow?

> Have you tried pointing the alias at Edit and turning Taskwindow support
> in StrongED off (Global choices -> Respond to -> Taskwindow requests) ?

I dont really want to disturb the normal use of StrongEd TW, another
thing, I am trying to find how I used to re-use the window for the next
task after the first task has died.

In article <56c40fb3cctim@xxxxxxxxx>,
   Tim Hill <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In article <56c3e9df2bronanon@xxxxxxxx>, Ron <ronanon@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I thought I might be able to temporarily bypass the StrongEd 
> > Taskwindow in favour of Edit by using %Taskwindow "..." or unset
> > alias$taskwindow but I still have to quit StrongEd from the the iconbar.

> > Maybe there is a way to explicitly run Edit's taskwindow?

> There doesn't appear to be but I'm intrigued, what is it you can do in an
> Edit t/w that you can't do in StrongED t/w?

It is only a size issue. While my email fetcher is retreiving mails from
different servers I have the info displayed in a taskwindow. My standard
StrongED TW takes over a lot of the screen just to display a few lines.
The other thing, The StrongED TW scrolls the info up off the window so
you cant read it without using the scroll bar.

It makes me wish the RISC OS throwback window was multitasking, and
surely the font size for it and the F12 single tasking should be
configurable for better viewing.

I guess making a WimpBasic application out of what I have would allow me
to make my own window, dont know wether several tasks could use the same
window or not.

Ron M.



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