dave@enmasse.UUCP (Dave Brownell) (10/07/85)
I had a chance the other evening to play with a friend's PC7300.
Looking through the subroutine libraries, I saw some interesting
looking stuff: the menu(3T) and form(3t) routines. Naturally enough
I tried to write a program to use a popup menu, based on the example
in the manual.
Well ... after a winit() call, I gave the menu() call and sure enough
it pops up. I figured out how to select and all that. (By the way,
what the *deleted* was my menu doing with help, scroll, resize, and close
boxes?) BUT ... the menu didn't disappear afterwards the way it was
supposed to!!! Moreover, the printout that was to appear describing
the results of the menu() call was LOST. (When the test program
output was redirected to a file, it appeared ... and the window seen
by running 'more' on the file looked better than the original!)
My program was essentially identical to the example in the manual, by
the way: different menu text and options, but the program body
was identical except for the printfs to say what had been selected.
(BAD documentation on those calls.)
Does anybody know how to make this stuff behave (other than CT)? Have
there been software updates/bugfixes that haven't been applied to this
PC? (If so, how does one get them?) He says ATTIS is so confused
he's lost interest in dealing with them for now. I think some of this
has been discussed already, but I missed it.
--
David Brownell
EnMasse Computer Corp
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