Re: 5250 rules

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 10:41 PM 6/20/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Now that color PCs are the rule rather than the exception, I am much more
conscious about adding color to screens rather than just attributes such as
underline, hi-lite and reverse image. What bothers me is that I have a
limited number of colors and 2 of those are undesirable. Both turquoise and
yellow fill a dot in between each character that I think is more
distracting than the color can make up for. Could someone explain why this
is? Or even better, why does it still need to be that way? Is there
anything that I can do to turn this off on the AS/400 or the PC?
>
As Walter Cronkite used to say, "...and that's the way it is...".  I was a
CPF Release 4.1 early ship for color, and I found this very annoying.  The
developers tried to make the existing attributes map into something, and
they did a fairly good job of that, but the dots (aka column seperators),
which were the norm on S/36, was put in place for those customers.

In the COMMON library, there is a command DSPCOLOR, which shows how all of
the display attributes map into colors. (The same command is also in the
old S/38 LISUG library.)  I wrote it when trying to figure out how to deal
with colors.

Al



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