I'm working on an Arev 3.12 application. I've created a window and want to access the SYSWINDOWS ASCII_CHART window from the option on a given prompt within my window. I've tried everything I can think of or find and still no luck. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

The system window I want to use is the same one that you get when you are at TCL or in edit mode and do a CTRL-S and select the "ASCII table" from the popup. I want to select an ascii character from the window and have it put to my prompt (just like it does when I'm using the window thru TCL or edit mode).

Thnak you,

Michael Slack

Michael,

You'll need a little program to get it to work for you.

@PSEUDO='

CALL CATALYST("W","@SYSWINDOWS@ ASCII_CHART")

* PSEUDO returns with decimal value of selected character

@ANS=CHAR(@PSEUDO)

I assume you will limit the selections to a range that doesn't include decimal values 0-27 or 250 to 255, inclusive.

Bill

At the OPTIONS option in the prompt, use a code/command of:

Code Command

S= RWSUBS,11

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If he wanted to capture more than one character for the prompt, he could do what you suggest in a loop, or he could do the RWSUBS thing in a loop, but I would suggest doing what RTI does in RWSUBS for the output conversion to the actual character:

@ANS=CHAR(MAX(MIN(@PSEUDO,248),32))

This makes sure you don't embed control characters that could cause a problem.

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Larry,

You've exposed one of the weaknesses of the self-taught programmer. I'm pretty much limited to the explanations offered in the documentation for how things work, along with whatever information I can mine from the Revelation community.

I can only guess what MIN, MAX, and RWSUBS do because they aren't described in my 3.12 R/Basic docmentation. Has anyone assembled an index of functions and subroutines describing their purpose and required parameters (data plus format)?

In your debt,

Bill

Bill,

Andrew's (Sprezz) old REVMEDIA publication was a great source of info for those types of subroutines.  I think he now has them available on disk.  

Larry

RevMedia. Right on the money. Thanks, Larry.

Thank you for your help. Your suggestions got me going in the right direction.

Thanks,

Michael Slack

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