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From: MACIEJ GORNY <GORN4907@mars.rowan.edu>
Organization: Rowan College of NJ
To: blitz-list@helsinki.fi
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 15:50:40 EST
Subject: Re: WTitle mess
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> Date sent: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 11:49:33 +0100
> From: sis3149@sisvax.sis.port.ac.uk (HANG-FIRE)
> To: GORN4907@mars.rowan.edu, blitz-list@helsinki.fi
> Subject: Re: WTitle mess
> > I use ASLFileRequest to get a file, then I assign whatever it returns
> > (a file with its path) to a string variable and try to use WTitle to
> > change window's title to display that file:
> > WTitle filepath$,"my screens name"
> > The screen's and window's titles get somehow screwd up after the next
> > window event it would seem. It contains some random strings, from
> > file requester, or etc...
>
> I got window title cockups when using previous versions of the window library
> in Blitz. My problems though have cleared up since I started using the
> newer versions.
>
> What would cause mine to fuckup is something like:
>
> WTitle "Help me please","Steve's little prog..."
> Execute_ "Time",0,0
>
> This would cause the window title to change to "Time" - very dodgy indeed.
>
> Wtitle most probably just stores the string you give and then calls the OS
> command SetWindowTitle. You could try doing this yourself: