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

[Brian Tiffin]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:36:58 -0400, Chris Geldenhuis  
<address@hidden> wrote:

> On 04/30/2012 08:15 PM, Brian Tiffin wrote:
> > 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
> Thanks Brian,
>
> The manual that I read said to set these variables to "any non-blank"
> character, I was setting them to "1" and it was not working. After
> setting them to "Y" I can pick up an escape. I will see if I can find
> the discussion to the screenio.c tweak. Do you perhaps have a pointer to  
> it?

Seems the patch file is pending, as mrcool may be waiting for the  
1.1pre-rel posting to SourceForge, which I'll likely do over the next  
couple of days, as it so happens.

http://www.opencobol.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1470&forum=1#forumpost7541

Cheers,
Brian

> Regards
>
> ChrisG