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Re: win32 via odin

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On Saturday, July 15, 2023 at 7:02:14 UTC+2, Paul Edwards wrote:
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> > > However, programs of mine that use ANSI escape codes 
> > > do not work properly - the ESC appears to be ignored/ 
> > > swallowed. 
> 
> > Not sure about that one, perhaps someone else has some insight.
> I have confirmed that when I build my own OS/2 native 
> executables, the escape sequences take effect.

I believe that Win32 console applications executed via Odin are actually run in a PM window rather than a real OS/2 console window and ANSI codes are probably not interpreted there.


> So if I go the route of writing a public domain, somewhat 
> minimal, win32 environment for OS/2, I know that the 
> escapes will get through. 
> 
> However, I still have a problem with keyboard input. I 
> need to get ANSI escapes - or at least - something - 
> when I press the different cursor keys. Otherwise my 
> version of microemacs 3.6 (also public domain - that 
> older version) won't work. 
> 
> So I wrote a test program, and if I build it as a win32 
> executable (using pdpclib) and run it under "pec", all 
> the cursor keys generate a x'e0'. 
> 
> If I instead build an OS/2 native executable (also with 
> pdpclib), I don't get any input at all. 
> 
> The "keys off" command doesn't change either of 
> the above. 
> 
> PDPCLIB is using this code: 
> 
> C:\devel\pdos\pdpclib>git diff stdio.c 
> diff --git a/pdpclib/stdio.c b/pdpclib/stdio.c 
> index 685e3e4c..f6b837e6 100644 
> --- a/pdpclib/stdio.c 
> +++ b/pdpclib/stdio.c 
> @@ -1921,6 +1921,7 @@ static void iread(FILE *stream, void *ptr, size_t toread, size_t *actualRead) 
> 
> 
> #ifdef __OS2__ 
> +printf("about to do dosread of %d\n", (int)stream->hfile); 
> rc = DosRead(stream->hfile, ptr, toread, &tempRead); 
> if (rc != 0) 
> { 
> 
> C:\devel\pdos\pdpclib> 
> 
> 
> ie doing a DosRead from handle 0. 
> 
> I thought there might be a DosDevIOCtl that governs this 
> behavior, so I went looking for the documentation. 
> 
> I was surprised that this was all I could find online: 
> 
> http://www.edm2.com/index.php/DosDevIOCtl 
> 
> which is insufficient. I actually need three things for 
> a fullscreen editor like microemacs: 
> 
> 1. Cursor keys to come through with unique codes. 
> 2. Echo switched off. 
> 3. Line buffering switched off. 
> 
> On MSDOS I can use INT 21H AH=44H to change those 
> last two things. But without documentation I don't know 
> if the equivalent exists in OS/2. I know what is required 
> in Windows too.
> > > In addition, the doco says that the driver is no longer 
> > > working, so I need to run everything via pec. Which 
> > > probably means I need to provide my own shell. 
> > > Which I can probably do, as I have 3 flavors of my 
> > > shell already (for 3 different flavors of PDOS). 
> 
> > Wonder if it is possible to run PDOS in a DOS session?
> PDOS/86 is an 8086 OS, so it would be a replacement 
> for OS/2's DOS, and not be useful regardless. 
> 
> But PDOS/386 has the infrastructure to do 32-bit for 
> Windows, so as above - I can potentially do what I want 
> in an OS/2 window. 
> 
> Although - I just realized while typing this that I could 
> possibly install HX into a DOS window to run everything. 
> 
> I come close to being able to do that in Freedos+HX 
> already.
> > > But that won't really work without ANSI escapes. ;-----;;;;;;;

> I think the VIO thing is what is swallowing the ESC character. 
> And what I need to do is switch to standard streams. 

I don't think that you can ever get cursor keys from stdin under OS/2 - only regular characters are delivered that way. You'd need to use the (16-bit) kbdcalls with thunking, or some wrapper around it (EMXWRAP.DLL from EMX runtime, or something else).

Tomas

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