RE: RSTDSP NOT WORKING

["Neil Palmer" <neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ron,

Does sound like a bug, but no doubt a complaint to IBM will elicit the 
(in)famous "working as designed" reply.  :-)

I'm really guessing here so this could be totally out to lunch, but it 
sounds like what may be happening is when you first return to program A 
the screen is "restored", but a buffer is cleared, and when you call 
program C the RSTDSP keyword now saves a blank buffer to restore when you 
return from program C.
If you wrote a display for program A before the call to program C (maybe 
some dummy display format that writes a line at the bottom of the screen 
or something) it probably works fine (maybe this is the workaround you 
used ?).
I assume you've tried RSTDSP on all screens for programs A, B & C and it 
made no difference ?
Have you tried putting all display formats for programs A, B & C into one 
display file, and using the same display file for all 3 programs ? 
(SHARE(*YES) may be necessary on the display file). 

...Neil





"Ron Hawkins" <hwarangron@home.com>
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2001/01/11 18:27
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Neil,

Yeah, the first program has restore display yes. The problem is this:
Program A calls Program B which displays a window over the screen 
displayed
in Program A. Everything works fine. End Program B and return to Program A
without redisplaying the screen. If you then call Program C to display
another window, it will do so over a blank screen. This is because the
screen was not restored when returning to Program A.

Ron


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