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At 09 OCT 1998 05:29:15PM Terry Rainville wrote:

AREV Specific

Here is the problem.

I can change the color of an object on a window using the following

code.

PRINT @(X,Y) 'ESC CHAR C CARROT<|'

this is a little hard to understand (Sorry) can not show characters

properly in this message but basicly it is as follows;

esc char (027) - esc sequence

C (067] - color code

carrot character - triangle (127) - background color

< sign 060 - forground color

What i want to do is basicly change the color of a character

within a variable in a program so when displayed in the data

prompt that portion of the data will be a different color than the

rest of the data which will be the default color for the prompt.

This is what ive tried

OtherVar=This Is A Test'

MyVar=ESCCCARROT<|' : OtherVar

The desired resault is - |This Is A Test

were | is a different color

I Get - ESCCCARROT<|This Is A Test with no color change

Dooooooooooooooooo

Any Help Please!!!!

At 11 OCT 1998 12:31AM Jonathan Bird wrote:

Does this help?

COLOUR =ESC$:'C17'

COLOUR =esc.to.attr(COLOUR)

OPTION =Some stuff'

POS =2

HIGHLIGHT =ESC$ : 'C1L'

HIGHLIGHT_ATTR =esc.to.attr(HIGHLIGHT)

OPT =OPTION1,POS -1

OPT := HIGHLIGHT

OPT := OPTIONPOS,1

OPT := COLOUR

OPT := OPTIONPOS + 1,len(OPTION) - POS

print COLOUR : oconv(OPT,'L#':CONV + 5) :

At 11 OCT 1998 08:13PM Claude Mansutti wrote:

Jonathan,

Have you tried changing colours (sucessfully) for specific variables

in AMVs on a Window?

I've spent plenty of time with some wierd results depending on the

length of the field.

Claude

At 12 OCT 1998 12:24AM Jonathan Bird wrote:

]]Have you tried changing colours (sucessfully) for specific variables

in AMVs on a Window?«

Yes, I've tried…. and tried,,,,, and tried. But with little consitant results. Eventually I gave up.

JB

At 13 OCT 1998 01:51PM Terry Rainville wrote:

At 13 OCT 1998 02:06PM Terry Rainville wrote:

Thanks for the help Jonathan. The routine works very well,

I did not know that function existed.

Unfortunatly we are still missing one very important aspect,

and that is how to get the changed variable with colors

into a window prompt WITHOUT IT SHOWING ESC CHARACTERS.

i have tried

wc_is%= Var

wc_display_action%=redisplay.prompts$

using the PRINT command in your example puts the output on the

window but not in the data prompt. Can not use @(X,Y) becuase

we do not know what position on the screen output will be displayed

in. Also just realized this is a AMV window, So Maybe this can not

even be done according to what you guys were saying.

Also in your example what is CONV - the compuiter did not like

this part so i had to remove it.

I changed that line to

print Colour : Opt :

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