Re: continuous entry and cursor advance

["Jason M. Felice" <jasonf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:13:01PM -0700, Mike Madore wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> > Fields that are defined as continuous entry in DDS don't work with
> > tn5250-0.15.8.  When text is entered into such a field the text should
> > break at the spaces.
> 
> Could you explain this to a non-DDS person? ;-)

Hrmm, tracefile good, it would show which flags are set in the field format
word.

>  
> > DDS defined cursor progression also doesn't work.  The cursor always moves
> > in the standard way - ignoring any DDS progression.
> 
> I assume you mean that the fields are not re-ordered?  I don't think this
> was ever implemented.  Has this worked for you in the past?  

Think think think... it must be something other than what you're thinking,
Mike, cause I know what you are thinking (field resequencing).  It annoyed
me a while back that we weren't implementing it because if it ended up causing
a problem, it would've taken me forever to actually pinpoint the problem, so
I put a few well-placed asserts.   No-one ever complained, so I assume that
field resequencing is no longer in use.  It doesn't even happen when
connecting to a System/36 (even though I don't have one network-accessible
any more).

> 
> Mike

Hmm, I wonder if the problems aren't just one problem - for example, all fields
with the same "sequence" number are 1 continuous entry field.
</weird-thought>

-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
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