Re: DSPF WDWTITLE not updating

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That is my sentiment too.  I do wish that certain keywords could be 
marked deprecated and developers be encouraged to avoid them. 
Programming for 300 baud modems is no longer useful.  The idea of 
"enhanced controllers" being a new-fangled oddity has worn thin over the 
past 25+ years.

I did however add back those keywords to see if behavior changed.  It 
didn't.

In the end, the game isn't worth the candle; I was changing WDWTITLE as 
a part of development code and that code disappears before production so 
the problem disappears too.


On 3/14/2018 2:57 PM, Mark Murphy wrote:
> If it were me, I would remove all PUTOVR, OVRATR, and OVRDTA from the
> display file as those are not necessary, and just make life more
> complicated. I have eradicated SFLRCDCHG as well as it is in the same
> category. All of these are there to reduce the amount of data transmitted
> over slow lines. Even Twinax was fast enough that you never noticed the
> difference. They were only ever useful for the Async Workstation controller
> where you had slooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww serial lines.
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 4:04 PM, Buck Calabro<kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
> > On 3/13/2018 3:44 PM, Booth Martin wrote:
> > > This has come up before but I can't find it again.
> > >
> > > A window, with a WDWTITLE.  I want the WDWTITLE vale  to change. In
> > > DEBUG the value of the WDWTITLE P field changes but the screen field
> > > does not change.
> > Please post the code, especially the DDS.  I suspect PUTOVR / OVERLAY /
> > OVRDTA / OVRATR is missing.
> >
> > --
> >    --buck
> >
> > http://wiki.midrange.com
> > Your updates make it better!