We started out with PI/Open. I could have got the statement from that. Anthony
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mats Carlid Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 1:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [U2] CLEARINPUT - Universe but there is good documentation of INPUTCLEAR ... maybe it's only a synonym thrown in to faciliate migration from some other pick dialect ? -- mats Anthony Dzikiewicz wrote: >I don't know why I cant find the CLEARINPUT statement documented. >Maybe it was a suggestion from the group way back when. We are working >on a program that pops up error messages. I want to be sure that the >users see this message. What happens a lot, is that our 'speed typers' >are about 10 strokes ahead of the program. A lot of what they do is >redundant and they arent always in the habit of paying attention to >what is on the screen. So, I asked the programmer working on this to >put a CLEARINPUT before the pop up messages. This way, the error >message will have a better chance of being seen. > >I have used CLEARINPUT in the past and this statement is in a handful >of existing programs. The programmer said she had never heard of this >and when she looked in the manual and HELP BASIC CLEARINPUT. She >didn't find anything. So, now Im wondering - how did I find out about >this ? I looked in an old (real printed and bound) BASIC manual and I >didn't find it. I looked in the PDF BASIC manual and I didn't find it. >Actually, it is in the reserved word list. > >I would assume this is still a valid command - it does compile. > >Can anyone enlighten me ? My concern is that this could be an old >command that was replaced by something new ? I don't want to continue >to use something that might not be supported. > >Anthony >------- >u2-users mailing list >[email protected] >To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
