Re: Setting Reflection 2 window titles from VMS

On Dec 28, 2:00 pm, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
I just heard back from one customer.

He is using 'Reflection for UNIX and Digital' version 11.0. What is their
current version?


Version 14 looks like the latest. V11 is the latest I have, too,
though.

He is running a simple app I wrote which calls up SMG to do a menu function.
As he scrolls over items in the menu, they appear at the far left of window
even though the menu was in a virtual display pasted on the virtual paste-
board 6 characters to the right! This works just fine with a *real* VT220
and its younger bretheren. I could hook up the VT100 (yes, a *real* VT100)
and test it here too but there aren't too many of those in use outside of
the VAXcave. ;)

To me, this is a pretty simple series of escape sequences. There shouldn't
be any reason for a piece of software calling itself a VT terminal emulation
to miss this.

Here's the image he sent me running the application that I wrote:

http://tmesis.com/temulator/


Yep, that's pretty ugly;-)

So, in that screen, it looks like the DISK2:[<bleep>.FILECOPY] line is
currently selected? Does the display "corruption" always follow below
the selected line? It looks like the corrupted lines are displayed
(attribute "reverse") in the correct positions, and then redisplayed
at the left (col.1) of the Reflection window rather than the SMG
window. A raw <cr> might do that. I certainly don't know for sure
what's wrong, but it would be interesting to see the raw data that's
being sent to the screen. I have had problems with SMG if I display
control characters (not using an SMG command) within the SMG window.
We stopped using SMG long ago when we built our own screen routines to
do the things we wanted (for portability to other lesser OS's.)

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