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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 01:49:15 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm>
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Subject: Re: Making the command console stay on top
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Reid Thompson wrote:
> Terry Dabbs wrote:
> 
>> I have an application written and compiled using gcc and ncurses (for
>> the colors), in the cygwin environment. This application gets
>> information from a database, and displays it to an operator running a
>> machine telling them what program to input (among other things).
>>
>> The problem is that when they go to enter the program name, the console
>> window immediately falls behind that of the application they are
>> entering the data into, and they can't read it.
>>
>> I'm using a shortcut to start this, and the level of display of the
>> window is not one of the options. Does anyone (that will answer) know a
>> way to start this window with the attributes needed so it will not be
>> covered when another application is touched by the mouse?

I suggest downloading the source to the 'run' package, and modifying 
that code to set the flag you want.  Look in run.c, start_child() function.

Then, you can use your modified 'run.exe' program to launch 'rxvt.exe -e 
bash' (but not cmd.exe) in your desired mode.

--
Chuck

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