ql_freak wrote: Thu Dec 26, 2024 1:46 am
<> BTW: Is it possible with WMON to set the top left corner of the screen (was not possible on a BBQL and TK2, as it has had only 512x256). <>
Im not sure what you mean..
Edit: Found it
With WMON x,y the colors (and eventually borders) of the windows are not set. This can look horrible.
When programs, like the recent Christmas tree one, messes up my screen (my
gripe with that kind of programming is one of the purposes of this thread)
then I come prepared with a hotkey ALT+B, defined in my boot sequence:
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ERT HOT_KEY('B', "CLOSE:PAPER#0;0:INK#0;4:PAPER 2:INK
7:PAPER#2;7:INK#2;2:WMON ,512,0:CLS#0:CLS:CLS#2" & CHR$(10))
That normally cleans up the mess.
Note this code is all on one line! It presumes TK2+EE or SMSQ/E. (EE =
Extended Environment = PE + hotkey system.)
However, I wouldnt normally expose my system console to the vagaries of
incidental programs I try out. Us lucky SMSQ/E users have the luxury of
daughter SBASICS. So I have another set of hotkeys to start up an SBASIC of
512x256a0x0, which is used for such cases. Thus, when the rogue program has
run its course, I just type QUIT:
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ERT HOT_THING(CHR$(236), 'SBASIC'): REMark F2 = New SBasic
ERT HOT_PICK(CHR$(238), 'SBASIC'): REMark Shift+F2 = Pick SBasic
Because I use Qpac2's excellent Button Frame, I prefer my system console
not to cover it, therefore my system console is defined by, and restored
with, the following hotkey command (again: all one line!):
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ERT HOT_KEY('b',
"OUTLN#0,512,242,SCR_XLIM-512,14:WINDOW#0;512,62,SCR_XLIM-512,194:BORDER#0-
;1,255:WINDOW#1;256,178,SCR_XLIM-256,14:BORDER#1;1,255:WINDOW#2,256,178,SC-
R_XLIM-512,14:BORDER#2;1,255:CLS#0:CLS#1:CLS#2" & CHR$(10))
Ie the window is slightly smaller (so I cant just use WMON) and is placed
on the RHS below the button frame. I could probably have made this more
compact and elegant. However, like so many of us, I wrote this a long time
ago, under different conditions, and have forgotten the reasons for the
decisions made at the time.
There may well be better ways of doings things, also there is the question
of taste.. I dont use any BASIC consoles for programming, except perhaps to
try out some expression or function, so the slightly smaller window is no
loss.
Anyone loading EasyPointer's toolkit ptrmen_cde has access to the command
WMOV. Type that in any SBASIC window to move the window anywhere on screen.
WMOV can be used in BASIC programs too, no need to go full PE to use it,
just call it as any other program function.
For those not yet familiar with SMSQ/E or the Extended Environment there
are two other hot things I find quite handy:
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ERT HOT_THING('z', 'Button_Sleep')
Place the pointer in any program window and press the hotkey, and the
program is "put to sleep", or buttonised. Works with any type of program!
Useful to find buried windows or just clear away some clutter.
The other is:
This picks the Button Frame so all those sleeping programs are brought to
the top like a menu.
I dont know who invented this kind of functionality. I cant remember
anything half as useful in Windows back in the day, let alone Linux. Mac,
perhaps? From the little Ive gleaned of other people's setups, It doesnt
seem to have arrived on a lot of QL desktops yet either..
Merry Christmas!
.