Re: 4GL window reverse colour

Ian Wilson wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --------------090600050905010602040205 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > When in ancient 4GL I do > > open window mywin at 5,5 > with form "idwc" > attribute (border, reverse, yellow) > > I expect to get a yellow rectangle including a yellow background in > otherwise empty parts of the window. > > However 4GL draws blank bits of the form in the wrong background color. > > I've tried various termcap entries with various ZA strings - all give > the same result. By looking at the transmitted codes, 4GL explicity sets > the attributes to white on black, then transmits spaces. > > Was this fixed in less ancient versions of 4GL? I don't know, but it does the blanking as you describe in RDS version 7.30.UC1 on Linux. Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ | Mark D. Stock mailto:mdstock@MydasSolutions.com |//////// /| | Mydas Solutions Ltd http://MydasSolutions.com |///// / //| | +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | |We value your comments, which have |/// / ////| | |been recorded and automatically |// / /////| | |emailed back to us for our records.|/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+ sending to informix-list