Re: Screen display colors from RPG

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try this:
 C     eval  newfield = CConst + variable

newfield must be one longer than the variable or you will drop the last 
character of the variable.

Nick_Radich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am trying to output different colors onto my display file, without using 
> indicators in my RPG.
>
> I created Constants with the hex value of the colors I need.  I then move 
> my file value into my output field, and then move the color constant to 
> the first byte of my output field.  It changes the color of the field when 
> I run the program, but it overlays the first character, so nothing shows 
> in the first character.
>
> I thought all I had to do was move my color constant into the first byte 
> and everything would be fine.
>
> It has been double digit years since the last time I did this, and it 
> worked then.  I am just getting too old to remember.:-)
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> We are at V4R5.
>
>
> TIA,
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> Nick Radich
> Sr. Programmer/Analyst
> EPC Molding, Inc.
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