Re: Window format clearing the remainder of the screen

Hello Don,

You wrote:
>In any event, I have WINDOW specified on the formats I'm attempting to
>display over the first format.  I also followed your suggestion about
>CLRL with no success.  I attempted to use CLRL(*NO) and CLRL(11) (the
>number of lines occupied by my window).  CLRL is apparently not allowed
>with SFLCTL so I tried it on my footer record and on the first format.

WINDOW does the management of the display and causes only the area of the
window to be cleared.  It does what we used to have to do with various
KEEP, ASSUME, OVERLAY, PUTOVR, CLRL tricks to get 'window' formats to
appear on a display in the S/38's days.  Given that you are using WINDOW
you have no need of the CLRL keyword -- never mind that it is not allowed
with subfile keywords.  I can't think of a circumstance that would cause
the entire display to be cleared when a WINDOW format is displayed unless
they are in separate display files.

>Trouble is, I have a program on another system that does exactly what I'm
>attempting here, except the screens behave as I expect on the other
>system.  Both systems are at V4R1 and I checked the DDS keywords and
>compile options used for each display file.

Are you sure the display files are identical?  It may be due to a PTF
difference but I couldn't find a match for your symptoms.

Some questions:

Is the record format with WINDOW in the same display file as the format
being overlayed?

Are there any warning messages in the DDS compiler listing?

Can you post the DDS source?

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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