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- From: Tony Lezard <tony@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Re: Very strange Clipper effect...
- Summary: RTFM
- Message-ID: <cP8XNB2w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 92 11:15:59 BST
- References: <1992Jul14.104432.3022@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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- schli@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schlickenrieder) writes:
-
- > [why does this:]
- > cls
- > name := SPACE (10)
- > @ 10, 10 get name
- > setcolor ("w/w") <- This is the line producing a white box
- > in the first line of the screen
- > ? "name = " + name
- >
- > [produce a blob on line 0?]
-
- For a start, a READ statement somewhere is recommended.
-
- Anyway, to cure your problem, put a SET SCOREBOARD OFF statement
- somewhere at the top of your program. When the scoreboard is ON, well,
- I'll just quote what Norton Guides says:
-
- # SET SCOREBOARD controls whether or not messages from READ and
- # MEMOEDIT() display on line zero. When SCOREBOARD is ON, READ displays
- # messages for RANGE errors, invalid dates, and insert status.
- # MEMOEDIT() displays an abort query message and the insert status.
-
- It's the Insert Status that you're seeing. Either "Ins" if in insert
- mode or " " if in overstrike mode. You were seeing three spaces in
- the current colours - white on white.
-
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