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echo: os2prog
to: Phil Crown
from: Doug Nazar
date: 1996-08-31 05:14:48
subject: Window Title

Hello Phil!

Friday August 30 1996 12:43, Phil Crown wrote to Doug Nazar:

PC> I believe he meant from a Vio app.

I realized it was from a VIO app. That was just how I'd first go about trying it.

PC> I tried the example posted, WinSetTitle() a 16-bit API, and it crashed
PC> my program too, using BCOS2.

I did a little checking and could find no docs on WinSetTitle but found it
in OS2386.LIB so I guessed at the prototype and voila!


-- CUT -------- Begin test.cpp -------- CUT --
#include 

#define INCL_WIN
#include 

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
{
#define WinSetTitle WIN16SETTITLE

   APIRET16 APIENTRY16 WinSetTitle (HAB hab,
                                    PSZ title);
}
#endif

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
   if (argc > 1)
      WinSetTitle(0, argv[1]);

   getch();

   return 0;
}

-- CUT --------- End test.cpp --------- CUT --

Doug

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