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Starting a program from a taskwindow

From	Thomas Milius <Thomas-Milius@t-online.de>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject	Starting a program from a taskwindow
Date	2011-07-08 20:03 +0200
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<1bf8b0ef51.Thomas@thomas-milius.t-online.de> (permalink)

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What is the best way to start program with WIMP interaction with parameters
from another program running as task window?

The task window should pause until the child program terminates.

Wimp_StartTask doesn't seem to work if used within a taskwindow.

Filer_Run would be an alternative but doesn't allow passing parameters and
the "parent" task would run all the time in background except I would do an
OS_Upcall 6 to it and the child task would fill the poll word at its end. I
also would have to allocate RMA space by the parent task (which in my case
could be a BASIC program).

Many thanks for ideas in advance.

Best Regards

Thomas Milius

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Starting a program from a taskwindow Thomas Milius <Thomas-Milius@t-online.de> - 2011-07-08 20:03 +0200
  Re: Starting a program from a taskwindow Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2011-07-08 19:44 +0100
    Re: Starting a program from a taskwindow druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2011-07-09 09:42 +0100
  Re: Starting a program from a taskwindow druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2011-07-09 09:40 +0100
    Re: Starting a program from a taskwindow James Lampard <dontreplytothis@mailinator.com> - 2011-07-09 01:55 -0700
      Re: Starting a program from a taskwindow druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2011-07-09 14:21 +0100
        Re: Starting a program from a taskwindow Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-07-13 06:07 +0200
  Re: Starting a program from a taskwindow James Lampard <dontreplytothis@mailinator.com> - 2011-07-09 01:41 -0700
    Re: Starting a program from a taskwindow Thomas Milius <Thomas-Milius@t-online.de> - 2011-07-10 11:07 +0200
  Re: Starting a program from a taskwindow Vince M Hudd <vinceh@softrock.co.uk> - 2011-07-10 11:56 +0100
  Re: Starting a program from a taskwindow "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2011-07-11 11:34 +0100
    Re: Starting a program from a taskwindow Thomas Milius <Thomas-Milius@t-online.de> - 2011-07-11 22:26 +0200
    Re: Starting a program from a taskwindow Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-07-13 06:16 +0200
      Re: Starting a program from a taskwindow "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2011-07-14 15:56 +0100
        Re: Starting a program from a taskwindow Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-07-16 06:38 +0200

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