Re: [open-cobol-list] Problems with Display of multiple fields.

[vince]

Hi;
On Tuesday 01 May 2012 08:31:46 Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
> Despite what is shown in Gary Cutler's excellent manual and used in some
> of the examples in it, I cannot get a DISPLAY of multiple fields to work.
> 
> Previously in MFC I would use:
> 
> DISPLAY identifier at POS, literal, identifier etc and would get all
> identifiers and literals appearing on the screen one after the other.
> 
> When I compile this in Open Cobol only the first item in the list of
> identifiers and literals appears on screen.
> 
> I have tried this with the "at POS" clause where shown above and at the
> end of the statement as it appears to be required by the manual.

You can use display A B C D.

or

display fred at 0101 with erase eos.
display john at 0120.
display a  at 0201

you cannot do display a b c d e f (etc) at 0101.
abcde should be in a 01 group (say zulu) within screen section.

eg, 
01 A-Blk foreground-color 3.
  03 a  a pic xxx      line 1 col 1
 03 b  value "buckets of blood"  col 5.

etc
 
Then you can just do display zulu.