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

[Chris Geldenhuis]

On 05/01/2012 03:20 PM, vince wrote:
> 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.
Thanks for the clarification Vince, I will have to think how to work 
around this as the suite of programs is full of:

display a at nnnn b c d e etc.

If I break this down to:

display a at nnnn.
display b c d e etc. I get a one line scroll down at the end of "a" on 
the screen

ChrisG
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