system command - problem resolved

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Dennis Malen (Mon, 7 Nov 2005 18:05:55 -0500):

> Ken,
>
> Ctrl-L does not work in update which I explained in detail below. I
> specfically said that I had to use Ctrl-c and Ctrl-L on the screen that
> did not have protected fields. If all protected then Ctrl-L worked fine.

You said several times that Ctrl-C/Ctrl-L redrew the screen, but you
never explicitly said that Ctrl-L by itself did not.

This means something is horribly wrong with your system.  filePro will
redraw the screen any time it reads a Ctrl-L (or whatever the PC termcap
entry is set to), regardless of what else is going on.  Any time, any
place, any program, no matter what filePro is doing when it reads the
Ctrl-L input, the screen will be redrawn.

Does anything besides Ctrl-C do anything?  Since you have taken filePro
into update mode on the screen, does Enter move you from field to field?
What about other input?

Take the processing with the SCREEN statement, and put a MESGBOX after
the SYSTEM and before the SCREEN statement.  Then, on a screen which
behaves as you describe above (ie: won't redraw on Ctrl-L unless you
break out of update with Ctrl-C), run the @key processing.  Then,
with the messed-up screen, press Ctrl-L.  This should redisplay the
screen with the messagebox up.  (You're still not updating the screen
yet.)  Press Enter to take you into update on the screen.  Is the
system responsive at that point?

> Hung Up: As I said in my post the cursor hangs up on the bottom part of
> the top one third of the screen. The rest of the screen is blank. You
> then should apply my first paragraph above for the rest of what we had
> to do manually to solve the problem.

The top third of the screen is drawn, and the drawing stops.  If you are
not in update mode (because you didn't put the SCREEN statement in), can
you do anything else?  Does filePro respond to input as you expect, aside
from the bottom of the screen being blank?

> Any other questions, please let me know.

See my above questions.

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