Hi! > Basically just that, if you change the size the console window fp is in, > the application sizes itself to fit the window. it's a skill I'd like > to duplicate, as the app will be a console app with an interface, and > the fvision demo didn't do the neat trick.
Probably this is of interrest for you: The terminal sends a SIGWINCH to the running process when it is resized. The process then requests its current size by an ioctl() TIOCGWINSZ to the stdout handle (0). You can test this in a simple shell window. Start two xterms (or which terminal you like, now called "A" and "B") and then do an "strace -p <pid>" in terminal A of the shell in terminal B (get its PID using "echo $$"). Then resize terminal B with the mouse. I get the following output of strace every time the size changes: read(0, 0xbffe5d3f, 1) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGWINCH (Window changed) @ 0 (0) --- ioctl(0, TIOCGWINSZ, {ws_row=24, ws_col=80, ws_xpixel=480, ws_ypixel=312}) = 0 write(2, "\r\33[K\33]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~\7\33[44;1;31m"..., 97) = 97 sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) read(0, Bye Hansi _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal