rmessagewindow

Regarding bottomline and rmessagewindow I was thinking that if i try to do bottomline in a separate window that just pops up and goes off, then i don’t have to worry about having a window handle (since a new window is created with each call). I tried out this approach with rmessagewindow. However, first of all one has to press a key to make the message go off. Secondly, when the window goes off, so does the message. Whatever was there before remains. Which is great if that’s what you need. (But we already have alert() and rdialog for that). This is fine for accepting input at screen bottom, but after ask() we still want to display some message like “file written” and let it be there. Which means i still have to write to existing window, so my problem remains. I need to have handle of existing window. I’ve added a bottomline object in each window when we create so we can use it as @window.ask, @window.agree. When you use App, you automatically get ask() connected to the root window, but what happens when one App calls another App!! However, i really like how i can do a ‘M-x’ (taken from memacs), and then tab to see available commands. This way user does not need to remember key combinations.