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[vefatica]

I added _FGCONSOLE and _MAXCON to 4CONSOLE.

v:\> conhelp _fgconsole
1 if console is foreground, else 0

v:\> conhelp _maxcon
X Y X (scroll) Y (scroll)

I use this to get a console of maximum size:

consize /p 0 0 /w %@word[2,%_maxcon] %@word[1,%_maxcon]

I also updated 4UTILS and SYSUTILS but I don't remember if there's anything new in them.

New stuff at ftp://lucky.syr.edu/4plugins and ftp://barnyard.syr.edu/pub/vefatica/4plugins

 

[Steve Fabian]

| I added _FGCONSOLE and _MAXCON to 4CONSOLE.

Did you make it possible to combine CONSIZE option /Q with options that
modify console size?
--
Steve

 

[vefatica]

On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:06:16 -0400, you wrote:

|| I added _FGCONSOLE and _MAXCON to 4CONSOLE.
|
| Did you make it possible to combine CONSIZE option /Q with options that
|modify console size?

No. That would be very difficult for me (since /Q uses dummy values for other
args and doubles as an error message with bad parameters are given). It would
be quite easy for the user.

 

[Charles Dye]

I added _FGCONSOLE and _MAXCON to 4CONSOLE.... I also updated 4UTILS and SYSUTILS but I don't remember if there's anything new in them.

Looks like, if someone loads all three, they'll have one command CONHELP to give help for one plugin's features, and another command UHELP to give help for another's, and SYSHELP for another's.... Have you considered removing these specialized help commands, and implementing Help() and Usage() instead?

 

[vefatica]

On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:27:10 -0400, you wrote:

|Looks like, if someone loads all three, they'll have one command CONHELP to give help for one plugin's features, and another command UHELP to give help for another's, and SYSHELP for another's.... Have you considered removing these specialized help commands, and implementing Help() and Usage() instead?

I forgot how they work. Are they documented anywhere?

My plugins have a slightly complicated help mechanism. UHELP (SYSHELP, CONHELP)
prints fixed text for variables and variable functions. Occasionally it does
the same for commands, but more commonly it calls the function with the arg
"/?". Will that be easy to adapt?

 

[Steve Fabian]

| Did you make it possible to combine CONSIZE option /Q with
|| options that modify console size?
|
| No. That would be very difficult for me (since /Q uses dummy values
| for other args and doubles as an error message with bad parameters
| are given). It would be quite easy for the user.

I have another issue - window positioning. It is legal for a window's
left and top coordinates to be negative, as the /Q option reports them (as
also done by the TCC internal function @WINPOS and your SYSUTILs command
WHICHWIN). However, CONSIZE does not allow moving a window to such a
position. I even tried using /R but it reverted to /Q when either of the new
left or top positions would become negative.
/P option (and its special case /C) could be enhanced to moving the
window vertically only to top, center, or bottom (possibly using option
codes /VT, /VC, /VB), and similarly horizontally only (/HL, /HC, /HR); one
from each category. Another enhancement would be to have /VX (maximize
vertically), /HX (maximize horizontally), and /X (maximize).
--
Steve

 

[Charles Dye]

I forgot how they work. Are they documented anywhere?

Try HELP PLUGINS; the relevant info is about two-thirds of the way down.

My plugins have a slightly complicated help mechanism. UHELP (SYSHELP, CONHELP) prints fixed text for variables and variable functions. Occasionally it does the same for commands, but more commonly it calls the function with the arg "/?". Will that be easy to adapt?

But probably the /? handler itself has some constant text string which it dumps to stdout, right? Probably wouldn't be too difficult to pass that same text string to, say, MessageBox() instead. If the /? handler is instead dynamically generating a string for some reason, I guess you could add a parameter to indicate whether the string should be printed to the screen, or used in some other way.

 

[w_krieger]

Hi

Is there any chance of a command MCD? (make and change directory?)

thank you :)

 

[Steve Fabian]

w_krieger wrote:

| Is there any chance of a command MCD? (make and change directory?)

Built into V12: option /D. Rex listens! BTW, I, too, had an MCD alias
for the same purpose for at least a decade.
--
HTH, Steve

 

[w_krieger]

I still uses v 8 under win2k :(

 

[Steve Fabian]

w_krieger wrote:

| I still uses v 8 under win2k :(

Unfortunately you are most likely out of luck. Currently only C. Dye and
V. Fatica are wholly active, and S. Mintz somewhat active in plugin
development. They are all involved with V12, and I personally doubt they
would be willing to devote any energy to do something useful ONLY for older
4NT/TCC versions.
BTW, I have used the aliases below since V7. Note that normally I use
the *n versions to avoid updating the directory index, which I generally
maintain manually. Before V7 the /net option was just /n, and the /ne option
not available.

mcd=*md /s /ne %1 %+ *cdd /n %1
mcdn=*md /s /net %1 %+ *cdd /n %1
md=*md /s /ne
mdn=*md /s /net

I seriously doubt that using a plugin command to do what the mcd alias
does would be observably faster.
--
HTH, Steve

 

[Charles Dye]

I seriously doubt that using a plugin command to do what the mcd alias does would be observably faster.

An alias will work in most (all?) older versions, even back to archaic releases of 4DOS. Plus, a plugin will require more disk space than a line in your aliases file; the smallest semi-useful plugin in my toolkit is over 26 kilobytes.

 

[w_krieger]

Hi

Here's a bug i get with a recent version of 4utils (as downloaded today). It has filesoze of 105984 dated 2010.09.20 @ 1.30

Wendy

4NT: (Sys) The specified procedure could not be found.
 "H:\SAVE\newin\jpsoft\PlugIns\4utils.dll"

4NT  8.01.70   Windows 2000 [Version 5.0.2195]
Copyright 1988-2007  Rex Conn & JP Software Inc.  All Rights Reserved
Registered to Wendy Krieger

[H:\SAVE\newin\jpsoft]ver

4NT  8.01.70   Windows 2000 [Version 5.0.2195]

[H:\SAVE\newin\jpsoft]

 

[Steve Fabian]

w_krieger wrote:
...
| 4NT 8.01.70 Windows 2000 [Version 5.0.2195]

Wendy:
The latest version of V8 is 8.02.106, which has many enhancements and
corrections. You can download it free!
Is your display listing from the automatic startup of all plugins
located in the PLUGINS subdirectory? If not, it does not show what feature
of 4utils.dll you tried to access.
I'll let Vince deal with the technical details.
--
Steve

 

[vefatica]

On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 05:02:32 -0400, you wrote:

|Here's a bug i get with a recent version of 4utils (as downloaded today). It has filesoze of 105984 dated 2010.09.20 @ 1.30
|
|4NT: (Sys) The specified procedure could not be found.
| "H:\SAVE\newin\jpsoft\PlugIns\4utils.dll"

No problem here with 8.02.106.

d:\4ntv8> plugin /l d:\tc12\Plugins\sysutils.dll

d:\4ntv8> plugin /l d:\tc12\Plugins\4utils.dll

d:\4ntv8> plugin /l d:\tc12\Plugins\4console.dll

d:\4ntv8>

But I remember that sometime, Rex changed the plugin interface (Steve ...
remember when?). I no longer build plugins for the old interface.

 

[vefatica]

It may also be Windows 2000. I am not paying any attention to whether a plugin will work under Windows 2000.

Hi

Here's a bug i get with a recent version of 4utils (as downloaded today). It has filesoze of 105984 dated 2010.09.20 @ 1.30

Wendy

4NT: (Sys) The specified procedure could not be found.
 "H:\SAVE\newin\jpsoft\PlugIns\4utils.dll"

4NT  8.01.70   Windows 2000 [Version 5.0.2195]
Copyright 1988-2007  Rex Conn & JP Software Inc.  All Rights Reserved
Registered to Wendy Krieger

[H:\SAVE\newin\jpsoft]ver

4NT  8.01.70   Windows 2000 [Version 5.0.2195]

[H:\SAVE\newin\jpsoft]

 

[w_krieger]

The latest 4util,dll does work with 4mt/tcc 8.02, but i can't figure out how to replace the icons therein.

 

[vefatica]

On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 04:55:04 -0400, you wrote:

|The latest 4util,dll does work with 4mt/tcc 8.02, but i can't figure out how to replace the icons therein.

I don't inderstand. ... replace icons? Is that plugin-related?

 

[w_krieger]

No, It's 4nt related. 4nt 8.02 uses the new style icons, 8.01 uses the old style. If ye run 8.x side by side with a more recent version, the icons do help tell the difference.

 

[w_krieger]

I've been using 4nthere.dll for a while. I have several ways of opening the command prompt from the context menu, this is the preferred way.

open++, Spiritpyre's submenu, cmdopen (code65536), all open command prompts in various ways, so i configure them to open different command prompts! (cmdopen is modified to cmxopen, this opens whatever cmx points to via app paths in registry), spiritpyre and open++ launch menus from the registry, and 4nthere loads the file from the load directory!

I modified it by way of stringhack to load tcc.exe, so that it might be used with the newer versions of the file.

One idea would be to do a recompile of 4nthere.dll to change the GUID and 4nt -> tcc, so that one could have alternate versions of the command prompt.