re interface to access separate appl in article aa expo lcs mit edu dbohdal jaguar ess harris com writes dear xperts here s my problem i am designing several related x applications each one is a separate executable and i d like to build a single control window that would allow the user to access each application instead of having to locate the correct icon the control window would contain a button for each application and by pressing it the application s main window would appear i would also like to use the application s button as a color status indicator has anyone done this or have any good ideas because these are all separate executables this seems like a communications nightmare to me but maybe i m wrong i d appreciate any ideas i m using x r and motif thanks dbohdal jaguar ess harris com i can think of two different methods that you could try use fork and execv use the system called in your program i m assuming that you re running under the unix os of course steve o o hsteve hydra unm edu hsteve carina unm edu just say no to vms
