[Jed-users-l] popping up a little window

[frank]

Wanted: some sl-code to pop up a little window (e.g. 40 x 15)
right in the middle of screen with help or error messages.
Should work in text mode, no gtk or qt or whatever.

I have found nothing similar in jed's library nor at sourceforge's
jedmodes. Further, none of the window intrinsics would help:

    ("enlargewin",   enlarge_window, SLANG_VOID_TYPE),
    ("splitwindow",  split_window, SLANG_VOID_TYPE),
    ("window_line",  window_line, INT_TYPE),
    ("nwindows",     jed_num_windows, SLANG_INT_TYPE),
    ("otherwindow",  other_window, SLANG_VOID_TYPE),
    ("onewindow",    one_window, SLANG_VOID_TYPE),
    ("window_info",  window_info_intrin, SLANG_INT_TYPE),
    ("set_scroll_column", set_scroll_column_intrin, SLANG_VOID_TYPE),
    ("get_scroll_column", jed_get_scroll_column, SLANG_INT_TYPE),

Can it be done and how?

Thanks.


frank