Re: FVWM: FvwmForm replaces FvwmPrompt (fvwm 2.0.41)

"Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <[email protected]> writes:

> Anno domini 2020 Wed, 26 Aug 19:37:03 +0100
>  Thomas Adam scripsit:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm curious about a piece of Fvwm history.  In the git log for fvwm2,
>> the initial revision (which is when Jason committed the Fvwm code to
>> CVS), notes the following for Fvwm 2.0.41:
>> 
>> 	Removed FvwmPrompt (use FvwmForm instead, since it's better
>> 	anyways)
>> 
>> This was sometime in 1998, although I'm presuming 2.0.41 was before
>> then.
>> 
>> Has anyone gpt any information about FvwmPrompt?  If it were a
>> forerunner to FvwmForm I've not heard of it before.  I note from the
>> old mailing list archives that it was a compiled module, but I can't
>> find the code anywhere.
>> 
>> Dust off the cobwebs, folks!
>> 
>> I'm only asking as I have just committed a new binary to Fvwm3 called
>> "FvwmPrompt", and hadn't realised it had existed already.  I thought
>> I was being so clever with the choice of name as well... That'll
>> teach me!  :)
>> 
>> -- Thomas
>> 
>> 
>
> 1998 ... could it be that the SuSE Linux of 1995 has it? I remember I
> used fvwm95 around that time. I'll go to archive and check :)
>
> Nik


Wow, fvwm history that is before my time?  (I think.)

All I can come up with is a config file with this:

AddToMenu Module-Popup	"Modules"	Title	
+			"Button-Bar"	Module	FvwmButtons
+			"Clean-Up"	Module	FvwmClean
+			"Identify"	Module	FvwmIdent
+			"SaveDesktop"	Module  FvwmSave
+			"Debug"		Module	FvwmDebug
+			"Pager"		Module  FvwmPager 0 1
+			"WinList"	Module  FvwmWinList
+			"Background"	Module  FvwmBacker
+			"IconBox"	Module	FvwmIconBox
+			"Banner"	Module	FvwmBanner
+			"Talk"  	Module	FvwmTalk
+			"Prompt"	Module	FvwmPrompt "hello" raise

Looks like it issued a prompt then executed an Fvwm command.

I don't remember FvwmClean either.


-- 
Dan Espen