system command - problem resolved

[Dennis Malen]

Ken,

You'll have to give me a day or so to answer your questions you raised.

We have implemented the processing company wide and for those that come in 
on the web. We are putting the finishing touches on it.

After we complete that I will try to experiment with your suggestions so you 
can get some answers that I hope can help others.

Regards,

Dennis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
Cc: "pmahler" <pmahler at malen.com>; "Fplist (E-mail)" 
<filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: system command - problem resolved


> 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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