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Re: [Win] dos boxes (Kat)

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Apr 30, 2001
• 498 views

Kat wrote:
> I admit this is asking for really good gravey on my exelent mashed 
> potatoes, 
> but is it possible to give a dos box in win95 a name in the titlebar 
> other than 
> "EXW"? Since we can't multitask, i am running 8 interpreter sessions, 
> and 
> there is no way to tell the monitoring screens apart from one another! 
> The 
> properties for the dos dox don't offer a clue as to the program the 
> interpreter 
> is running. If winet crashes, like as if the isp drops out, the first of 
> the 8 
> programs to notice it will redial, but the 2nd one will apparently start 
> building 
> a huge disk swap file, and maybe the 3rd one as well, and the disk 
> thrashing 
> won't end until i kill off all 8 processes and restart them all,,, cause 
> while i 
> may be able to see which window display is not updating, i don't know 
> the 
> name of the process it is displaying, so i don't know which process to 
> restart! Why don't i use a windoze box? cause i am having this lockup 
> problem and i don't want to introduce my ignorance of windoze windows 
> programming into the problem.
> 
> Kat
> 
> 

Hi again Kat,

Try putting something like this at the end of your WM_CREATE
window event handler that is associated with the desired console:

      atom lptext,hwndC,bool

      hwndC=c_func(xGetWindow,{hwnd,2})
      hwndC=c_func(xGetWindow,{hwndC,2})

      lptext=allocate_string("New Console Title")
      bool=c_func(xSetWindowText,{hwndC,lptext})
      free(lptext)

If youre using winlib, you could try putting it in your
onOpen() routine.


If your missing any low level c function wraps mentioned above:

    xSetWindowText=link_c_func(user32,"SetWindowTextA",
                   {C_POINTER,C_POINTER},C_ULONG)

    xGetWindow=link_c_func(user32, "GetWindow",
                  {C_POINTER,C_ULONG},C_POINTER)

Let me know how you make out with it.
--Al