#94 Screenio overwrites last character of field with first character of next field

[Louis Krupp]

Screenio backspaces before displaying fields. If two fields are adjacent, the first character of the second field overwrites the last character of the preceding field. For example, this screen section (adapted from the example for bug 35):

::cobol
       screen section.
       01  OffD-Maint-Scrn-Skills-SMenu
           BACKGROUND-COLOR 1 FOREGROUND-COLOR 2.
          05  BLANK SCREEN.
          05  LINE Window-UpperLeft-Corner-Line
              COL Window-UpperLeft-Corner-Column
              VALUE "1234".
          05  value "567".
          05  value "8".
          05  value "9".

displays "123569".

A potential patch is attached.

[Louis Krupp]

Sample program is attached.

[PatMcC]

Hi

Sorry for my stupidity. I downloaded the patch but I don't know how to apply it. Is it possible to just copy and paste the C code somewhere in screenio? Or could you point me to a tutorial?

-Patrick

P.S this shoud have been arressed to Louis, sorry Louis

[Simon Sobisch]

No problem to ask here. Patchfiles can be applied with the patch command in linux

cd libcob

and then either (like in this case)

patch < patch

or

patch screenio.c patch

(the second "patch" is the downloaded patch file), maybe check the first nice diff/patch tutorial I've stumbled upon.

In Windows I personally use WinMerge or TortoiseMerge if I'm currently not in MSYS/MinGW or cygwin where using the patch command is likely.

Simon

BTW: This wasn't posted to the mailing list (at least I didn't received it via the list).

[Edward Hart]

This bug is no longer present as of [r888].