>> You can turn every textmode application into a PM program when you 
 >> make  use of redirected stdin/stdout. But I don't see any reason 
 >> why you  should do that hack.

 > Can you explain this a little further?  Tnx.

As far as I can remember Msged's output is done with ANSI control codes via
stdout. 'All' (I know ) you have do to is to write your own ANSI
engine which associates certain screen areas with fields (for example, from
[row/col] 1/15 to 1/80 there is the 'from' field, in case you get an ANSI
command to display text in this area you have the value of the from field)
and so on.

If you select a menu entry in your PM frontend you have to translate that
information to the corresponding keystrokes Msged needs (for example, if
you choose Message/new you have to write and  key value to
stdin, I don't know the exact value for  right now, but the
code for  for example is 0x1b00.

I hope these two examples made my vision more understandable.

 >> A common OS/2 fullscreen program doesn't make use of PM functions 
 >> like  the clipboard for example, and - more important - there 
 >> *are* native PM  message readers (FleetStreet, Sqed/32, MyEd, 
 >> PMMsged).

 > Is the source code available for any of these message readers?

I'm only able to talk about Sqed's source code: If you give me good reasons
why I should give the source code to you (or anybody else), I'll do so.

 > Source code is freely available for Msgedsq 3.20 (and is 100% 
 > public domain code).

Yes, I know.

Joerg-Stefan

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