Re: Windows in ASCII

In article <199...@cs.wisc.edu> s...@brownie.cs.wisc.edu (Bryan S. So) writes:

>  I was interested in these packages for DOS you mentioned a 
>  while ago.  I have examined most of the public domain ones
>  and many commercial products.  
>
>  ALL of them lack one or both of the following features that I
>  consider essential:
>
>  . writing characters to a background window without first
>    popping that window up to the front.
>
>    - essential for multitasking applications.
>
>  . moving a window partly off the screen.  for example, I'll
>    send this command: window_move_right(window4, 30), which 
>    moves a window to the right 30 units.  If the right border
>    of that window is currently less than 30 units from the
>    edge of the screen, I'd like it to go partly off right 
>    part of the screen.  
>
>    - essential for virtual desktop applications.
>
>  That was about a year ago, and I am not confident there is
>  any to date.

DesqView (from Quarterdeck) can't move windows partially off
screen, at least not in the version (2.42) they were selling a
year or two ago.  However, it is ASCII oriented, easy to program
for, and very powerful.  I wrote a "supervisor" program to
operate Lotus 1-2-3 (in concert with another program) under
Desqview, by sending keystrokes to it and reading its screen,
even though 1-2-3 was not Desqview-aware.

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