Re: [open-cobol-list] Recognition of Tab and Escape keyboard characters

[Brian Tiffin]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:30:56 -0400, Chris Geldenhuis  
<address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am involved in converting a suite of programs to Open Cobol but am not
> able to terminate ACCEPT fields with Tab or Escape characters. These are
> used extensively in the current user interface so I would prefer to
> stick with them rather than change to function keys and have to retrain
> 100 users.
>
> Any Ideas will be welcomed.

Did you see  
http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com/#does-opencobol-support-screen-section ?

Both environment vars need to be set (which can be done in COBOL as long  
as it's before you trigger cureses)

SET ENVIRONMENT 'COB_SCREEN_EXCEPTIONS' TO 'Y'
SET ENVIRONMENT 'COB_SCREEN_ESC'        TO 'Y'

There was a small discussions about a tweak to screenio.c that allowed  
other terminators as well, if I remember correctly.

Cheers,
Brian

> Regards
>
> ChrisG