RE: Window format clearing the remainder of the screen

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Indara and named indicators particular to the display file make a pretty
good option D.  It does involve more typing, though.  Everyone that grew up
in the 60s knows "M" is the thirteenth letter of the alphabet. <g>  Perhaps
_*because*_ I grew up in the sixties, I have trouble associating any of the
other letters with numbers.

My thinking is colored by having been trained in a shop where INKx was
prohibited.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Klement [mailto:klemscot@klements.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 4:36 PM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Window format clearing the remainder of the screen
>
>
>
> Sigh... not the "*INKC vs *IN03" holy war, again.
>
> a)  *INKx is simple and to the point.   KA=F1, KB=F2, etc.  Not hard
>       at all to figure out.  And it's immediately obvious what the
>       programmer is doing.  Yes, it would've been nice if they were
>       called "*INK1 - *INK24", but they were limited to 2-digit
>       names.   Yes, it would've been nice if they didn't arbitrarily
>       skip over *INKO.  But, even with these complications, it takes
>       5 minutes to learn.
>
> b) *IN01, *IN02...  Yes, it's easy to figure out what these are when
>       things are working, but there's an added step when things aren't
>       working of verifying that *in01 is used for F1 and only for F1,
>       and the same for *IN02-*IN24.  Is that difficult?  No.  But it's
>       one step of complication above *INKx, and provides very little
>       benefit.   (Unless the idea of C being the 3rd letter of the
>       alphabet confuses you)
>
> c) AID bytes.   This is EASILY more complicated than the two steps
>       above combined.  It works great.   And it lets you use nicely
>       named words like "KEY_F1" to represent your function keys.
>       But... it's a GREAT DEAL more complicated than the indicator
>       approach, and the end result is EXACTLY THE SAME.  What ever
>       happened to "K.I.S.S."?
>