Controlling the position of a new window

I can't judge the value of it for you, but I often reach for the uCon Embedded Console. It provides a TFTP client/server, a DHCP server, and more, plus serial command scripting, and a terminal server that allows you to access the PC's serial port remotely via telnet. It's free and it runs on Windows, though I think the author is maybe working on a Wine version or something to go beyond Windows. It's been continuously updated over the years, as well. The last one I found was from September 2008.

Also, see this page -- partway down -- for the same link:

Also, it starts up really fast. I use it regularly on old beater machines -- I'm talking about 80486 machines operating Win98SE at

I also use PuTTY, though, for some things. I like them both.

Jon

Hi, Rick. You might code up a Win32Forth word to call the MoveWindow API function to move PuTTY.

I'm afraid my C is better than my Forth, so that's what my sample is written in. See below:

// moveputty.c #include

#pragma comment(lib,"user32.lib")

int main(int argc,char **argv) { HANDLE hwnd; hwnd=FindWindow("PuTTY",NULL); if(hwnd==NULL) { printf("Unable to find PuTTY"); return 1; } // x,y,width, height, repaint-flag MoveWindow(hwnd,10,15,800,200,TRUE); return 0; } // end

The first thing to do is find the handle of the PuTTY window by calling FindWindow with a windows-classname of "PuTTY". If a handle is returned, move it ( which also resizes it ... so you may need to tinker with the width, height values. )

The EXE and source for the above can be found here:

Jim Lawless

Jim,

Thanks. I am currently using ExtraPuTTY which allows the location of the window to be set. However, it opens an extra side window along with PuTTY, which then needs to be closed for my purposes. But I can live with that. I am going to focus on the other aspects of my program. But when I get back to this, I may try your suggestions.

Rick

I downloaded Win32Forth today just to see how difficult it might be to implement. Here's the word I came up with.

: moveputty 0 z" PuTTY" FindWindow dup 0= if drop else >R 1 200 800 15 10 R>

MoveWindow then ;

I'm afraid that it should really read the existing Windows dimensions and simply move it rather than forcing it to 800x200, but I hope this gets you into the ballpark should you need to revisit this issue.

Jim Lawless

Thanks. I can figure out what dimensions to use. Right now the program will remember the window size, so I should be able to read that from the init dialog.

Rick