RE: Is it possible to have 2 display devices in one program?

Booth,

Create a Break-message handler that uses dataqueues to pass message text
back and forth.  To start a chat, send a break message to the user that
wakes up the message client.  Still, pop-ups like this can be really
annoying to a heads-down user...

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
940-898-7863 or ext. 1863



-----Original Message-----
From: Booth Martin [mailto:Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 11:32 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Is it possible to have 2 display devices in one program?


"Care to share?"  Sure, why not, but no laughing, ok?  I would like to
develop a TALK utility.   Reaching another user for a casual question is not
graceful.  Obviously the phone or Instant Messenger will always be a better
method, but sometimes you just need to ask a quick question and SNDBRKMSG is
not very graceful. 

 

My thought is that a single subfile of the typed comments of the user(s)
connected would be  common to all screens, and would appear to be a simple
solution to the problem of sending messages back & forth between users.  My
other thought now that I've seen Scott's comments is that the utility could
easily include more than two users.



Whether this utility is useful or not is moot.  My interest is in the
problem itself.

 

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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com

Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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-------Original Message-------

 

From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion

Date: Sunday, October 19, 2003 6:04:29 PM

To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion

Subject: Re: Is it possible to have 2 display devices in one program?

 

At 12:52 PM 10/19/03, you wrote:

>

> Is it possible to have 2 display devices in one program? Are there

>examples that are available?

 

Yes, it's possible, though it's been a long time since I did it, although I

never found a good use for doing so. The biggest problem is that the

device had to be unallocated, that is to say, at a sign on display.

 

Here is a description of what you want, but no code...

 

http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/199906/msg00009.html

 

I'm curious as to what would be a good use for such a program... Care to
share?

 

Regards,

Rich
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