Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] TC version 0.64 and beyond

[David E. <de...@us...>]

John Culleton wrote:

 > Another possible piece of work.
 > Let's say I have an alphanumeric field 8 characters long.
 > Initially it is filled with spaces. As part of the accept
 > of a screen  I fill in "foo" and hit return.
 > The field has "foo" in the first three positions but
 > what fills the remaining five? Ar there five spaces or
 > does a carriage return or tab character get placed in the
 > field ?
 > Perhaps there is a way to exit the field without disturbing
 > the last five characters but if so what is it?
 >
 > I have just that situation where a field is filled in
 > and then compared to another field.
 > A carriage return or tab charcter will cause the comparison
 > to be false where it should have been true.

I did not write the SCREEN (ACCEPT/DISPLAY) IO code, and I haven't 
worked on it in quite some time.

Frankly it is a real pain to work on this code, as it is OS (on UN*X 
terminal) dependent.

I had plans to work on the sources, add some user options to the 
run-time resource file 'htrtconf'.
But as it stands, I have no plans to update the SCREEN (ACCEPT/DISPLAY) 
IO sources.

Have you tried using 'cobcurses'(1) for your project.
According to the author it works with OC, so it may work with TC.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

1) cobcurses
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cobcurses