Assuming you're running a turnkey app and you want to open the
SwiftForth console while your app in running, execute something like
this when your program launches:

: WINMAIN
   CREATE-YOUR-APP-WINDOW ( this should create your app window )
   I'M-TESTING? ( true = launch SF Console )
   IF ['] INTERACTIVE 'STARTER ! DEVELOPMENT
   ELSE ( standalone )
      BEGIN ['] DISPATCHER CATCH 0=
      UNTIL
      'ONSYSEXIT CALLS ( Execute System Exit Chain )
      0 ExitProcess
   THEN ;

' WINMAIN 'MAIN !

I'M-TESTING? could interrogate the command tail.

Hope this helps,
Mike
   

-----Original Message-----
From: sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com [mailto:sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com] On Behalf
Of Roger Levy
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:40 AM
To: sftalk_at_forth.com
Subject: [sftalk] Responding to SwiftForth's Incoming Messages

Copied from original email I sent privately to Leon Wagner:
I had an idea a long time ago to try to execute the message pump for the
SwiftForth console window from an animated app loop (controlling a child
graphics window) such that it would make it appear that both windows
were
running concurrently. This would enable me to have all the functions of
SwiftForth's console available while an animated game program is
running,
eliminating the need for a built-in commandline, for testing purposes.

The message pump for the SF console (inside TTY.DLL) doesn't seem to be
exposed. Is this idea realistic, and, how could I implement it?

Synonyms for "message pump": Event loop, message dispatcher, message
loop

-Roger

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