Question wih character programming in FACTS 7.7.4

Hi ....I have a programming question specific to FACTS 7.7 and providx.
I have a straight character program - there is a title line and the next 3 lines are basic input lines. In a nutshell when you enter this program from the menu - it is a blank screen. Apparently as I understand it this is a 7.7 driver situation. It was suggested I place a line print 'show'(3) up front - I have done this and it does indeed then print my title at the top - but when it gets to the first input line - it does not print to the screen and just sits there waiting for the input and so on and so forth. I have tried adding print 'show' (3) before and after my input line and have also tried various combinations of print 'show' (2) and print 'show' (4) with no luck.

I really do not want to restructure this code in the meta data - it should not be necessary as there are several FACTS programs still running in straight character code.

Can someone help ?
Thanks, Donna

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kevenh

Try this at the beginning of your program. It has worked for us:
print 'goto'(0),'show'(1),

dhalon

Hi
print 'goto'(0),'show'(1), worked great in that it displayed the title and the first input line but then blank for the subsequent input line...sits there and waits for input but no display.
I can try entering this line for all input lines ?
I really appreciate the response. Let me know if there is more I can do.
Donna

Eddy Vittini

Donna,

I had success adding this to the program UTPCOP (SMPRMT copy from 7.5) that displayed the input edit values on the screen:

0120 print 'textwdw'(0,0,80,24,"SMPRMT COPY PROGRAM")

You can supply whatever program name description you want on the text plane.
Good luck,
Bob

skyler-williams

I had a problem with white screen running the old UTPCOP program from WindX. To fix it, I added the code:
0045 print 'window'(0,0,80,24)
0050 print 'BK','blue','default','white','default'
Then I could see the prompts and the characters I was typing.
Also, for old style progress indicators, or if things just don't display as they should use:
'BE','+U',;wait 0
at then end of the print statement. My experience is the wait 0 is essential for this to work, and will not work by itself, neither will the mnemonics work by themselves.

Legacy Contributor

Try this:

print 'SHOW'(3),'+U',

--Ken

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