uucigj@gandalf.sbc.com (Gregg Jensen) (11/17/90)
I was wondering if it was possible to stack one widget (say a button or a series of buttons) on top of another widget (say a vt100 widget)? I would like to make a simple/quick front end to an existing app without changing the existing app. The access to the app is via a modem dial up and the display is on a workstation that is running X. The app has its menu stretched across the top of the screens (you select by first letter and it executes that option) and there is also a command line at the bottom. I want show the screen as normal on the vt100/xterm widget (what is between the top line and the bottom line) and have a series of buttons across the top that they could push for the corresponding command. Thus when they pushed the button the program would send the appropriate key just like the user was typing it into the app itself. I would want to do the same for the command line at the bottom. Is this possible? any hints? Is this unclear?
barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) (11/20/90)
In article <1990Nov16.190106.19990@swbatl.sbc.com> uucigj@gandalf.sbc.com (Gregg Jensen) writes:
I was wondering if it was possible to stack one widget (say a button
or a series of buttons) on top of another widget (say a vt100 widget)?
I have an (alpha quality) XView-based package that might be what you
are interested in. It allows you to have a panel along with a
tty-based application. The panel contains several buttons which
perform like function keys. The current release also does keyboard
remapping. Included with this package is vtem(1) - a termcap-based
VT100 emulator. I have also used this package to put a panel around a
IBM 3270 emulator. You can run any tty-based program inside the
aplication. Send me mail if you are interested in an Alpha copy.
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