Re: DSPF WDWTITLE not updating

That is my sentiment too.  I do wish that certain keywords could be marked deprecated and developers be encouraged to avoid them. Programming for 300 baud modems is no longer useful.  The idea of "enhanced controllers" being a new-fangled oddity has worn thin over the past 25+ years.

I did however add back those keywords to see if behavior changed.  It didn't.

In the end, the game isn't worth the candle; I was changing WDWTITLE as a part of development code and that code disappears before production so the problem disappears too.


On 3/14/2018 2:57 PM, Mark Murphy wrote:

If it were me, I would remove all PUTOVR, OVRATR, and OVRDTA from the
display file as those are not necessary, and just make life more
complicated. I have eradicated SFLRCDCHG as well as it is in the same
category. All of these are there to reduce the amount of data transmitted
over slow lines. Even Twinax was fast enough that you never noticed the
difference. They were only ever useful for the Async Workstation controller
where you had slooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww serial lines.

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 4:04 PM, Buck Calabro<kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 3/13/2018 3:44 PM, Booth Martin wrote:

This has come up before but I can't find it again.

A window, with a WDWTITLE. I want the WDWTITLE vale to change. In
DEBUG the value of the WDWTITLE P field changes but the screen field
does not change.

Please post the code, especially the DDS. I suspect PUTOVR / OVERLAY /
OVRDTA / OVRATR is missing.

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