Hello
I have been using wcmd lately, its been really useful to my research.
However, could wcmd default to its "command history" (a la doskey) value to something other than zero please? Perhaps 50 would be enough, it would not take up much memory for the queue strcture I think.
I do not know if this is wcmd, but the wcmd context menu uses a serif font. I think in UI design serif is not a good choice... most programs use a sans serif one, such as the widget in wcmd->propeties. Sans serif is generally accepted as more appealing in most contexts.
It would be great if the wcmd text area was bigger too, current it starts as 80x25, however, if I change it to 80x80 in the wcmd prefs (then resize the window, as it does not auto adjust) and type "dir" the same top 80x25 chars are the only ones used to display text. I ran cmd.exe from within wcmd and the same problem showed up. So it appears that its either the way Wine displays windows, or wcmd. I tried "wineconsole ./cmd.exe" too, that locked up my terminal with lots of NCURSES fixme printf's.
cmd.exe in MS-Windows is resizable vertically, and the extra lines are used.
Regards
JG
J. Grant wrote:
Hello
I have been using wcmd lately, its been really useful to my research.
However, could wcmd default to its "command history" (a la doskey) value to something other than zero please? Perhaps 50 would be enough, it would not take up much memory for the queue strcture I think.
I'm going to fix that. anyway, you can change it "by hand" for all wcmd apps.
I do not know if this is wcmd, but the wcmd context menu uses a serif font. I think in UI design serif is not a good choice... most programs use a sans serif one, such as the widget in wcmd->propeties. Sans serif is generally accepted as more appealing in most contexts.
this is wine's default for menus
It would be great if the wcmd text area was bigger too, current it starts as 80x25, however, if I change it to 80x80 in the wcmd prefs (then resize the window, as it does not auto adjust)
once again, this works fine here... which wine version are you using?
and type "dir" the same top 80x25 chars are the only ones used to display text.
the current known issues : - some downsizing of console from the property dialog are wrongly handled - wcmd doesn't take into account the real console height (but it uses its width)
A+
Hi,
Eric Pouech wrote:
J. Grant wrote:
Hello
I have been using wcmd lately, its been really useful to my research.
However, could wcmd default to its "command history" (a la doskey) value to something other than zero please? Perhaps 50 would be enough, it would not take up much memory for the queue strcture I think.
I'm going to fix that. anyway, you can change it "by hand" for all wcmd apps.
I do not know if this is wcmd, but the wcmd context menu uses a serif font. I think in UI design serif is not a good choice... most programs use a sans serif one, such as the widget in wcmd->propeties. Sans serif is generally accepted as more appealing in most contexts.
this is wine's default for menus
Hmm, I think this should be modifed for default then IMO.
It would be great if the wcmd text area was bigger too, current it starts as 80x25, however, if I change it to 80x80 in the wcmd prefs (then resize the window, as it does not auto adjust)
once again, this works fine here... which wine version are you using?
Wine CVS 20030115
and type "dir" the same top 80x25 chars are the only ones used to display text.
the current known issues :
- some downsizing of console from the property dialog are wrongly handled
- wcmd doesn't take into account the real console height (but it uses
its width)
If I change to 80x50 it forgets it as soon as I apply to current session or all future sesions.
If i type "dir" after setting this nothing has changed. It also does not resize the window when I change this size. Perhaps it can update the size of the wcmd window.
MS cmd.exe has fixed horizontal size and dragging the vertical hight auto changes the vertical size, so there is no config for that.
Regards
JG
If I change to 80x50 it forgets it as soon as I apply to current session or all future sesions.
error reporting is weak, but I think you only changed the window size, not the screen buffer size... the screen buffer must always be bigger than the window size, hence your issue. bump both sizes to 80x50 it should work just fine A+
Hi Eric,
Eric Pouech wrote:
If I change to 80x50 it forgets it as soon as I apply to current session or all future sesions.
error reporting is weak, but I think you only changed the window size, not the screen buffer size... the screen buffer must always be bigger than the window size, hence your issue. bump both sizes to 80x50 it should work just fine
OK, that works now, could this configuration be imprved? eg if the window is made bigger the only reason would be to increase the buffer etc.
Regards
JG
On Thursday 20 Feb 2003 22:41, J. Grant wrote:
Hello
I have been using wcmd lately, its been really useful to my research.
However, could wcmd default to its "command history" (a la doskey) value to something other than zero please? Perhaps 50 would be enough, it would not take up much memory for the queue strcture I think.
AFAIK cmd.exe uses an undocumented kernel function GetConsoleCommandHistory(), so it will be necessary to document that and then implement it.
It would be great if the wcmd text area was bigger too, current it starts as 80x25, however, if I change it to 80x80 in the wcmd prefs (then resize the window, as it does not auto adjust) and type "dir" the same top 80x25 chars are the only ones used to display text. I ran cmd.exe from within wcmd and the same problem showed up. So it appears that its either the way Wine displays windows, or wcmd. I tried "wineconsole ./cmd.exe" too, that locked up my terminal with lots of NCURSES fixme printf's.
cmd.exe in MS-Windows is resizable vertically, and the extra lines are used.
The directory command is hard-coded in wcmd/directory.c to use 25 lines as the screen depth. Maybe it should check the console size, though I don't know whether the console routines have the necessary support yet.
Dave Pickles
davep wrote:
On Thursday 20 Feb 2003 22:41, J. Grant wrote:
Hello
I have been using wcmd lately, its been really useful to my research.
However, could wcmd default to its "command history" (a la doskey) value to something other than zero please? Perhaps 50 would be enough, it would not take up much memory for the queue strcture I think.
AFAIK cmd.exe uses an undocumented kernel function GetConsoleCommandHistory(), so it will be necessary to document that and then implement it.
it's already implemented, but not by using those undocumented functions.
The directory command is hard-coded in wcmd/directory.c to use 25 lines as the screen depth. Maybe it should check the console size, though I don't know whether the console routines have the necessary support yet.
I've already fixed that. I should submit it some times now. A+
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