Re: Q: Can you cause the sceen to REDRAW itself
Posted in 1995
dennisp@informix.com (Dennis Pimple) wrote: >: On 27 Sep 1995, Ancil Bethelmy for development wrote: >: > I would like to know if there is a way to make a screen that has garbage left >: > over from opening and closing forms automatically redraw itself without the >: > user typing "^R" to redraw. > >You might be able to do something with CURRENT WINDOW IS ... syntax >(I haven't tried it), but one way to do so is to remember that 4GL >redraws the screen whenever returning from the RUN command, so: > >RUN "echo ''" I tried the above but it doesn't serve my purpose. Perhaps I should be more clear and indicate that I would like to re-draw the border after displaying an ERROR "SUTFFF" type statement. After doing the ERROR statement the window is left with a hole where the error was displayed. -- Ancil Bethelmy cowboy@ranchero.dcsc.bls.com