Hello there,
I am at it again and somehow I do not know head or tail any more.
What I want to do in my prog sounds simple, but I am totally confused.
(1) I want to install a window upfront, giving the program's name in the caption. I want this to stay on the screen while the prog is running
(2) While the prog is doing the initial procedure, I want to show a pic that is to close after some seconds.
(3) Then some windows should open, giving and asking for information, being closed when the user does press a button.
(4) I want small windows to show up, e.g. when some error occured to be closed by the user hitting an 'okay' button.
What I tried:
(a) boxes (%ob and %cb) but I did not find any means to close them and scratch them off the screen
(b) child windows (%`lw and %ch) but I found, I have to define the child before the mother and could not have child #2 opened after child #1 is closed (at least I found no way to do so)
(c) %fr and %aw, but this offset that is issued any time I open a child makes error messges moving across the screen, which I think a little bit ugly. Furthermore, I want to use the whole screen while I could not bring %fr to start the childwindow at the leftmost pixel of the screen.
The last resort that I can think of is to close all the windows that are open at any time I want my screen changed and set up the complete thing again. Is that the course of action ??
Anybody any ideas ??
Norbert