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- From: dave.snyder@snide.com (Dave Snyder)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: 2 questions: 4GL source length limit & screen redraw question
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 23:03:04 -0500
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- Quoting paul linton...
- }
- } 2) With ^R to redraw the screen and Informix refreshing underlying windows
- } when one is closed it makes sense to think there is some sort of
- } data structure keeping track of what the screen should look like. I
- } would appreciate any information to access that structure. In this case
- } I would like to dump the current screen to a file/printer from an
- } ON KEY(whatever) CALL dumpScreen() type senario.
- }
- You are correct in your assumption that some type of stucture keeps track of
- the screen. Sounds like you want fgl_prtscr(). This function is available in
- most versions of db4glgen. BTW, db4glgen-3.9 does have this function.
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