<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >ZVT Terminal Widget</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.74b"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="ZVT Terminal Widget Reference Guide" HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="ZVT Terminal Widget Reference Guide" HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Terminal properties" HREF="zvtterm-properties.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="CHAPTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#000000" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="4" ALIGN="center" ><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="5" >ZVT Terminal Widget Reference Guide</FONT ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25%" BGCOLOR="#C00000" ALIGN="left" ><A HREF="book1.html" ><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="3" ><B ><<< Previous Page</B ></FONT ></A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="25%" BGCOLOR="#0000C0" ALIGN="center" ><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="3" ><B ><A HREF="book1.html" ><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="3" ><B >Home</B ></FONT ></A ></B ></FONT ></TD ><TD WIDTH="25%" BGCOLOR="#00C000" ALIGN="center" ><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="3" ><B > </B ></FONT ></TD ><TD WIDTH="25%" BGCOLOR="#C00000" ALIGN="right" ><A HREF="zvtterm-properties.html" ><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="3" ><B >Next Page >>></B ></FONT ></A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="CHAPTER" ><H1 ><A NAME="ZVTTERM" >ZVT Terminal Widget</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="zvtterm.html#AEN28" >Creating a Terminal</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="zvtterm-properties.html" >Terminal properties</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="x98.html" >Input to terminal</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="x119.html" >Retrieving data from terminal</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ><P >The ZVT Terminal Widget (zvtterm) provides high level access to a xterm-compliant terminal emulator which can be used for terminal emulation or as a high performance text output engine with scroll-back and selection facilities.</P ><P ><A HREF="zvtterm-reference.html" >the chapter called <I >API Reference</I ></A > contains the detailed function call descriptions of all publically callable functions.</P ><P ><A HREF="zvtterm-notes.html" >the chapter called <I >Implementation notes</I ></A > covers some implementation ideas and issues that will guide the implementor.</P ><P >A few brief notes on future plans are include in <A HREF="zvtterm-future.html" >the chapter called <I >Future plans</I ></A >.</P ><BR CLEAR="all"><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN28" >Creating a Terminal</A ></H1 ><P >The following functions are available to create a terminal:</P ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P > - create a default widget.</P ></LI ><LI ><P > - create a widget with a specified terminal size.</P ></LI ></UL ><P >Unless there are specific reasons not to, you should normally use <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >zvt_term_new_with_size()</TT > to create a new terminal. Otherwise you must be careful of the order you perform size operations on the terminal. It would normally make sense to call <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >zvt_term_set_size()</TT > before the widget is realized anyway. </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><BR CLEAR="all"><BR><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#000000" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25%" BGCOLOR="#C00000" ALIGN="left" ><A HREF="book1.html" ><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="3" ><B ><<< Previous Page</B ></FONT ></A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="25%" BGCOLOR="#0000C0" ALIGN="center" ><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="3" ><B ><A HREF="book1.html" ><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="3" ><B >Home</B ></FONT ></A ></B ></FONT ></TD ><TD WIDTH="25%" BGCOLOR="#00C000" ALIGN="center" ><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="3" ><B > </B ></FONT ></TD ><TD WIDTH="25%" BGCOLOR="#C00000" ALIGN="right" ><A HREF="zvtterm-properties.html" ><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="3" ><B >Next Page >>></B ></FONT ></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD COLSPAN="2" ALIGN="left" ><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="3" ><B >ZVT Terminal Widget Reference Guide</B ></FONT ></TD ><TD COLSPAN="2" ALIGN="right" ><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="3" ><B >Terminal properties</B ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >