Program running within menu window ?

[cougar]

Does anyone know how or if its possible to get a program running within the menu window?
Thanks in advance ...

[kingzooly]

Does anyone know how or if its possible to get a program running within the menu window?
Thanks in advance ...

What do you mean menu window? if you mean can you run a program by clicking a option in a menu then yes but I not sure what you mean could you explain

[cougar]

What do you mean menu window? if you mean can you run a program by clicking a option in a menu then yes but I not sure what you mean could you explain

Hi Kingzooly

Im trying to get Dosbox to open within the menu window....Something like the pic below
for example ?

[kingzooly]

That is not in a menu lol, you could look in to embedding examples I would also call this masking but there are a few examples on embeding a app in to ams kicking about or was.

[cougar]

That is not in a menu lol, you could look in to embedding examples I would also call this masking but there are a few examples on embeding a app in to ams kicking about or was.

Ok thanks kingzooly....That means its possible so I will have a hunt about :yes

[Shrek]

The winapi plugin has a function to do this and an example showing how but you can go further and use the cmd plugin that will let you create your own console window and will accept commands and display the results just as a dos box does:

[kingzooly]

The winapi plugin has a function to do this and an example showing how but you can go further and use the cmd plugin that will let you create your own console window and will accept commands and display the results just as a dos box does:

He wants to embed dosbox for playing games not return it like a dos like window he wants the game to run there and then well that's how I understand it anyway

[cougar]

He wants to embed dosbox for playing games not return it like a dos like window he wants the game to run there and then well that's how I understand it anyway

Yep you got it....So basicly even a game or whatever I get dosbox to excecute would be and running in the menu window

[Nickj]

Will this end up as a graphical front end to control the dosbox emulation settings or just having the command line sitting inside an AMS structure.
The first gives you a fair bit of flexibility and maybe a little more usability for people who didn't start up when you had to do a lot through DOS commands.
The second just seems to be a more complicated way to use dosbox.

[cougar]

Will this end up as a graphical front end to control the dosbox emulation settings or just having the command line sitting inside an AMS structure.
The first gives you a fair bit of flexibility and maybe a little more usability for people who didn't start up when you had to do a lot through DOS commands.
The second just seems to be a more complicated way to use dosbox.

Hi Nickj
The first of your questions was the intention to use as a front end with far more functions so you could use it as a front end with Game pages already setup etc

BUT....It seems after researching past threads there is no way to embed dosbox within the menu the way I would like or at least nothing im capable of at the moment :(

[reteset]

Hi

i am not a gamer but i have checked that DosBox app
and it opens a command prompt window and then opens another window

i think that it is an opengl window ,it uses that window to render graphic output
since , it is a normal window and can be embedded/hosted with AMS window (page)

first you should find the handle of window
and then modify its style to remove caption and border
and use SetParent() to host it

[cougar]

Hi

i am not a gamer but i have checked that DosBox app
and it opens a command prompt window and then opens another window

i think that it is an opengl window ,it uses that window to render graphic output
since , it is a normal window and can be embedded/hosted with AMS window (page)

first you should find the handle of window
and then modify its style to remove caption and border
and use SetParent() to host it

Thanks Reteset I will look into it again....The second window is not needed and I can disable that easily with a
" -noconsole " command...... I will have a play around with SetParent () and see if I can work it out

I don't really want to give up with this but it was proving more complex than I thought