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Article #7568How can I disable Sunview Cmdtool scrolling from C program
From: Joe Smith
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1991 00:00
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1991 00:00
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In article <1991Apr18.205638.1769@wrkgrp.COM> jmd@wrkgrp.COM (Joseph M DeAngelo) writes:
>I had asked an earlier question about why I was getting repeated
>SIGWINCH signals while running a curses application in a Sunview
>cmdtool window. I noticed that the problem disappears if I
>first disable scrolling. Is there any way to disable scrolling
>( that is, make the scroll bar disappear) from a C program??
The answer to your question is "output the appropriate escape sequence".
Here are the relevant lines from my .cshrc file:
alias header 'echo' # this is redefined in .suncmd
alias cd 'cd \!*; header ${HOST}:${cwd}; set cwdh=$cwd:h; set prompt="($cwdh:t/$cwd:t) $userprompt"'
# windows do not execute .login, so must do some of it here
if ($?WINDOW_PARENT) then
source ~/.suncmd # define header, scroll{off,on} using escape sequences
# I like non-scrolling cmdtool windows; they have a nicer left margin.
if ($term == sun-cmd && `tty` != /dev/ttyp0) then
scrolloff; tset sun # ttyp0 is the console window
endif
cd $cwd # This sets the new prompt
endif
Here is the .suncmd file: (Note: \E signifies the ESCape character)
# These definitions are here in .suncmd so that "cat .cshrc" and "cat .login"
# won't cause the terminal to get confused by the escape sequences.
alias scrollon 'echo -n "\E[>4h"' # enables scroll bar on cmdtool window
alias scrolloff 'echo -n "\E[>4l"' # disables scroll bar
if (`tty` == /dev/ttyp0 && $?WINDOW_PARENT) then
alias header 'echo' # kludge for my console window
else
alias header 'echo -n "\E]l\!*\E\"' # change title bar
endif
alias iconheader 'echo -n "\E]L\!*\E\"' # change icon label
In summary: To make a cmdtool window act like a shelltool window, output
the sequence "escape open-square-bracket greater-than four lowercase-H".
To re-enable scrolling, use "lowercase-L" instead. For more info, see the
man pages on "shelltool".
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!brchh104!brchs1!bnr.ca!rice.edu!sun-spots-request From: jms@tardis.tymnet.com (Joe Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: How can I disable Sunview Cmdtool scrolling from C program Keywords: Windows Message-ID: <2613@brchh104.bnr.ca> Date: 24 Apr 91 00:00:00 GMT Sender: news@brchh104.bnr.ca Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 44 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Original-Date: Sun, 21 Apr 91 02:50:12 PDT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 88, message 10 X-Note: Submissions: sun-spots@rice.edu, Admin: sun-spots-request@rice.edu