OT: MENU EDIT II Fix

Bob Stockler bob at trebor.iglou.com
Tue May 17 10:22:25 PDT 2005


Ken Brody wrote (on Tue, May 17, 2005 at 11:56:02AM -0400):

| Quoting Bob Stockler (Tue, 17 May 2005 11:44:19 -0400):
| 
| > The fix to MENU EDIT II to correct the scrambled screen after
| > printing documentation to a PAGER was to edit three lines and
| > to add one line:
| [...]
| >    1484  Then: system Clear_Scrn ; show "" ; input popup WKey "\r VIEW
| [...]
| > If anyone wonders why I didn't just use filePro's CLS command,
| > it's because it didn't work, so I had to resort to using the
| > operating system's clear screen command.
| 
| filePro will clear and redraw the screen after SYSTEM regardless of
| the command executed.  A simple SYSTEM "" should do the same thing,
| without having to know the system-specific clear-screen command.

That's nice to know - I'll shorten my fix to do it that way.

Bob

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