Opening A Task Window

Is it possible to open a new taskwindow from an Obey file?

Also if I set the Wimpslot in the Obey file prior to opening a taskwindow, will the taskwindow use that wimpslot?

I’m trying to create an Obey file to filer_run !GCC, set the Wimpslot and launch a new taskwindow.

Read this – but the caveat is to note the line at the bottom.

A way to do this is to make a dead simple little Wimp program in BASIC to start, issue the call, then quit.

Alternatively, try using a TaskObey file? That might work.

For the memory slot setting – note the -WimpSlot parameter.

Or you could perhaps play with *TaskManager_StartTask ?

I ran into a similar issue myself a little while back when I wanted to start a task from a module. All these years, I never realised until recently that there is no obvious/easy mechanism to start a Wimp task when you technically aren’t in the Wimp environment.

Cheers Rick!
*taskwindow -display did what I needed.

hmmm or not!
The Wimpslot isn’t being recognised by the taskwindow. Perhaps there is a way to set the ‘Next’ memory allocation?

It’s working fine here but you have to be aware of how the wimpslot is set.

It will always use the Next slot size unless -Min is bigger or -Max is smaller.

Did you specify xxxK for the slot size?

Otherwise, try *WimpSlot -Next xxxK before the task window call.

@ Fred: there is no min/max in the TaskWindow call, so it should be reasonable to assume that it will assign what you ask (within the constraints of page size, of course).

Working now! Thanks Gents.

@ Fred: there is no min/max in the TaskWindow call

Thanks Rick. I had been thinking of:

  *WimpSlot -Min xxxK -Max yyyK
  *TaskWindow -Display

Should have looked up the TaskWindow command first. That’s what you get when rushing out a reply whilst doing other stuff.