Anyone display different colors in PER form screens?
Posted in 1996
In appendix I of Volume 2 of version 4.0 of the 4GL Reference manual is a description of how to create or modify one's TERMCAP file entry to get colors and highlighting enabled. I'm working with a sun workstation running X-Windows (X11R5). I've made the changes as described, using the entry of "xterm". In my 4GL program I use the attribute clause to try to display text with different colors and attributes. The result is that different attributes such as underlining and reverse video work fine, however I cannot get different colors to display. I've also found that by printing the right escape sequences from a non-4GL program I can set text attributes but not color -- same problem. The X books, such as volume 3 of the O'Reilly X-Windows series, show escape sequences for changing text attributes but not colors. I'm beginning to suspect that what I want to do cannot be done on a SUN workstation running X-windows. Does anyone know for sure? Or, more importantly, has anyone been able to get different colors to display in different fields of PERFORM screens on sun workstations? Many thanks to anyone who knows a way. -- Richard Baumann (805) 447-8391 International Clinical Safety AMGEN --------------------------------------------------------------- The opinions expressed herein are strictly those of the author. *** Disclaimer: These are the opinions of the poster not Amgen Inc.***