Re: Creating a console app

Jeff,

Are you interesting in a standalone "Turnkey" application or will your
application rely on the SwiftForth environment and its "TTY" console?

For a standalone turnkey app, a Windows console (aka DOS Box) can be
easily be created to display status information. See the subject
"Turnkey" in the SFTalk 2002 archives.

Also, use the following (or something like it) to properly shutdown
your application:

: ALL-DONE ( -- )
   'ONSYSEXIT CALLS \ Execute System Exit Chain
   0 ExitProcess ;

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com [mailto:sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com]On
Behalf
Of Jeff
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 4:02 PM
To: sftalk_at_forth.com
Subject: [sftalk] Creating a console app

Hello all,

I've got my first program just about done, and I'm ready to create the
EXE. From the documentation this appears rather simple, but I'm
running into a few hic-ups. I figured out using 'MAIN instead of
STARTER to get the program up and running without SF.EXE.

But I can't get anything to type to the console. Hopefully I'm just
missing something simple to create a console application? Ideally, I'd
just like ABORT" . ." etc to all output to the console.

--
Best regards,
 Jeff                          mailto:jma_at_mfire.com
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