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Article #7665spawnl(P_OVERLAY,...)
From: Sandy Pittendrigh
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:20
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:20
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I'm trying to write an event-loop program that displays a series of "RectAreas" on the screen. Clicking the mouse on any one of these (in this case 4) rectangles would then call spawnl() to start any one of 4 other programs. My hope was to return control to the event loop after exiting any such program, so the mouse could then choose again. I was able successfully call my programs with spawnl(P_WAIT, ...) but would then exit to never-never land. So then I tried spawnl(P_OVERLAY, ...), which spawns successfully, but then exits to the dos prompt, rather than back to the event loop. So this is my question: Is this what spawnl(P_OVERLAY, ...) is supposed to do? (exit to the dos prompt). Or am I failing to return to the event loop because of memory overload? (On a 386SX with 2 meg ram, Borland c++). /*=======================================================================*/ /* Sandy Pittendrigh <Sandy@cs.montana.edu> */ /*=======================================================================*/
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!srvr1.engin.umich.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!sandy From: sandy@cs.montana.edu (Sandy Pittendrigh) Subject: spawnl(P_OVERLAY,...) Message-ID: <1993Jan22.142010.29943@coe.montana.edu> Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman Mt 59717 Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:20:10 GMT Lines: 16