How can I make a public screen?

[Thomas]

With ModePro you can define public screens which automatically open when a program requests the name.

[Thomas]

PSI only works for MUI programs.

[Thomas]

newshell "con:////AmigaShell/CLOSE/SCREEN TEST"

does not work with a screen defined in PSI unless a MUI program has opened the screen already.

I talk about opening the screen *automatically*, not by running PSI and clicking on "open" first.

[Thomas]

ModePro does not mode promote if you don't tell it to. It can automatically create non-existing public screens by name. For example if you tell the application to open on a public screen named TEST (as I did in my newshell example) and no such screen exists yet, it opens it with the definitions you made in the database. That's the same what PSI does, but PSI needs manual intervention while ModePro does it automatically.

[Thomas]

No, it's not an alternative in regard to this thread. It is is a pure mode promoter, it cannot create new public screens.