Re: [open-cobol-list] Screen section under htcobol vs. cobc.

[vince]

On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 22:40:22 john Culleton wrote:
 
> Removing the comp words has no effect. Changing the screen test value
> makes F3 work for cobc but of course makes htcobol F3 not work.
 
> Changing the word color to background-color corrects that error on line
> 35.

That makes sense as color by itself is not a valid attribute in screen section 
(nor in Cobol)
 
> No matter what I do the cobc version give a messed up screen. See:
> http://wexfordpress.com/htcobolscreen.png
> and
> http://wexfordpress.com/cobcscreen.png

Those produce an 'error 404' page not found

> 
> One or the other compiler is handling screens incorrectly, and/or there
> ere errors in the code. I just want to know what causes the
> discrepancies.

Usage of the '+ n' can be a problem. Try using 'PLUS n' instead.
Can you confirm you are using OC v1.1. 

> The OC Manual and the books I have give very little help on the screen
> section.

Are you looking at the programming guide from Gary?

If so, see page 5-17 through 5-19

Look at the values for colours, eg, 1 - 7 etc

Let me know when you have the htcobol version (assuming that one is as you 
expect) available to see.

V