RE: [Tiny-cobol-users] Bugs in DISPLAY

[<bko...@ma...>]

I don't have an example right to hand, but imagine something like this.

01 WS-TELA-01.
  03  WS-T01-LINHA-01         PIC  X(40)
     VALUE "Esta e a prima linha da tela".
  03  WS-T01-LINHA-02        PIC  X(40)
    VALUE "Aqui pode continuar na Segunda linha".
...
  03  WS-T01-LINHA-12        PIC  X(40)
    VALUE "a ultima linha de uma tela 40x12".

-----Original Message-----
From: Hudson Reis [mailto:hud...@so...]
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 9:13 AM
To: tin...@li...
Cc: Boris Kortiak
Subject: Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Bugs in DISPLAY

Hi Boris,

> Number 1 makes sense.  Without the closing quote mark, the token continues
> until the end of the file.  What behavior were you expecting?

I expect the compiler should be a error, but this message "scanner token to
large" is very strange to the user.

> I have always created a screen of literals in WORKING-STORAGE rather than
> using a DISPLAY <literal> format.  There are a few reasons for this: i)
> depending on the screen size (ROWxCOL) one can pretty easily lay out the
> screen so that it is easily viewable in WORKING-STORAGE as what you expect
> to see on the screen after the DISPLAY [an early wysiwyg :)]; ii)
> reusability, you may find a use for different parts of the screen at some
> later point; iii) maintainability, just easier for me to maintain my
> ewysiwyg.

Well, I think good your way to use a screen. If it doesn't bother you, could
you send me a simple example?

Thanks
Hudson