That is the one thing that is the most Jurrasic about MV systems, the INPUT statement. It's a shame that it needs so many home-grown methods that try to match with the language's IN or GET statements with the specific emulator's expressions of the characters being typed (and filtered).
I wish the emulators themselves included a platform specific subroutine that could be easily edited as a replacement for the INPUT statements. I have successfully created a Wintegrate version emulating Adds-VP but there are so many combinations. GET.ANS() I know that some VAR's have developed their own configurable subroutines and attempted to emulate the very consistent Microsoft Textbox input scenario. In this case MS got it right. Every input behaves very much like every other with the special keys. I believe that this should be accomplished by the providers themselves, ie Raining Data and IBM in their future releases. They already interpet the TERM setting and it would remove the differences. I took my GET.ANS and tried to fit it on Accuterm and couldn't get the proper backspace. I'm not looking for code solutions now so please do not provide. I'm just suggesting that this 15 year old pursuit for a consistent INPUT interface be drawn to a close by the providers and not downstream by the VARs or individual programmers. Gone is the day where an employee's first brush with a keyboard is our old clunky Wyse-50. Virtually every new employee is coming from the MS interface and I am sick of having to write filter routines for the control characters. It doesn't look good to the users either. My 2 cents. Mark Johnson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Results" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 2:04 PM Subject: Re: [U2] Using Esc > Bill, > Try CRT'ing the ASCII value of ANS to see what Esc is reporting as > on this system. I have see 27 (typical), 251, and even 21 on some other > terminal emulators. > > - Chuck > > >The following code does not behave as intended. > > > > Esc = char(251) > > > > begin case > > case Ans = '' ; null > > case Ans = Esc ; return > > end case > > > >On the screen displays the characters... ^[ appear. > ------- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
