[MiNT] Shutting down XaAES cleanly

["Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>]

Jo Even Skarstein wrote:

> I have written a small program to select screen resolution under XaAES
> +FireTOS. I want this program to tell XaAES to restart (and thus read

Would it be enough to just restart the same binary (Ctrl-Alt-J), or does it have to be re-launched?

> xaaes.cnf with the new videomode), but how do I tell XaAES to shut down
> or restart from a program? It doesn't support the N.AES-method
> (shel_write(SWM_AESMSG...)).

I think this is currently not possible. My first idea would be to add a
command to the alert-interface, i.e. your program would write a certain string
to /pipe/alert. That should be easy to do.

-Helmut