nep.pgelhausen@AMES-VMSB.ARPA (03/28/86)
A message recently contained a question about scrolling windows; a reply concerning how to do so in an active window (hence on top); and a final plea asking "But what if the window *isn't* on top?". As far as I know, if the window is not on top, it is not active, thus you need not be concerned with scrolling it. What sort of situation do you have where you require scrolling for an inactive window? -Richard Hartman nep.pgelhausen@ames-vmsb ------
tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) (03/28/86)
In article <8603280155.AA04187@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> nep.pgelhausen@ames-vmsb.ARPA writes: > >As far as I know, if the window is not on top, it is not active, thus >you need not be concerned with scrolling it. > >What sort of situation do you have where you require scrolling for an >inactive window? > How about a windowing terminal emulator? You would have several windows on the ST, and a protocol for multiplexing several logical connections over one serial line. On the host, you have a driver for multiplexing the output of several processes onto one line. In this situation, it would be easy to want to have output in several windows at once. Or how about a terminal emulator with a built in editor? It would be nice if I could edit some text in one window, and then tell the terminal emulator to send it. While I am doing this, I would still want to see any stuff that comes in from the host, even though that window would not be on top. -- Tim Smith sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim
jamesp@tekla.UUCP (03/29/86)
---------- It's called "rear-window defrosting," and is not trivial.