Re: [MiNT] 2 Problems/bugs in Toswin 2.7

[Petr Stehlik <joy@sophics.cz>]

On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 13:21, Standa Opichal wrote:
> > > 2: Change the way Toswin works in that it only runs one tos-app, and 
> > >    let every tos program open a new Toswin instance. (The console 
> > >    window would also be a separate instance).
> > 
> > The latter sounds quite reasonably to me.
> 
> Yes, as I've became quite familiar while playing with fVDI bconout trap it 
> would be really good. But: TosWin has it own handling of the windows. 
> Application you are speaking about would be of a quite high memory 
> footprint for nothing.

I thought the possible new TosWin would be with shared text code segment
so it would be in memory loaded just once (does this work under MiNT for
AES applications at all?)

> There should be at least two applications, one for 
> the configuration of the whole thing (just like TosWin2 is now) and the 
> second only simple window terminal emulation. The terminal emulation might 
> be programmed as the SLB to not to load multiple times. In other words the 
> terminal emulation SLB would get used by the tosrun.app which would simply 
> use the SLB for everything.

Sounds good, doesn't it?

Petr