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
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