BE> I'm looking for a book about advanced uses of scroll bars, and
 BE> continual screen writes that don't gobble up resources.  I have OS/2
 BE> Real World Programming, by SAMS and it is just OK for what I want. 
 BE> Any suggestions.

 PC> What do you mean by continual screen writes?  As in a 
 PC> communications program
 PC> where the screen is constantly scrolling when 
 PC> receiving data?  This is what

sigh...this is really not that hard.  The secret is to scroll more than one
line at a time,  if you have received more than one line of data since the
last scroll.

I wrote some PM code to do fast scrolling (in a real PM program,  not
el-cheapo AVIO) about 6 years ago,  but it wasn't until last year's
coloradOS/2 that I cleaned it up enough to release it.   That was about 1.5
years ago -- and I did release it,  but I guess it didn't get much further
than the coloradOS/2 '94 cdrom.  I'll post it on my bbs.

It is a _very_ dumb terminal program,  and the code is meant to be
explained by me while I am giving a presentation (ie: there are but few
comments in the code).

Hint: to see how fast it can scroll,  type a text file name for the port
(instead of "COM1").

FREQ pmtermsr.lzh from 1:259/414,  approx 30k.  Requires IBM or Watcom compiler.


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