1. Euphoria on a PS/2 55sx w/ 8514 display
I am experimenting with a Euphoria pgm on as many platforms
as I can get to. I noticed some anomalies on an 55sx w/ 8514
display: don't know if the 55sx or the 8514 was the instigator.
ctrl-delete did not delete a line in ED.
text colors were not displayed in ED. The menu bar was
colored properly, but all text was presented in black on a
gray background - no red for comments, nor green for
sequences, etc.
The interactive trace screen worked properly, but was presented
as white text on a black background.
Many other euphoria functions worked properly.
Message-Id: <960623.130452.EST.JDKINNE@MIAMIU>
John Kinne
2. Re: Euphoria on a PS/2 55sx w/ 8514 display
- Posted by Robert Craig <72614.1667 at COMPUSERVE.COM>
Jun 23, 1996
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Last edited Jun 24, 1996
On June 23 John Kinne said:
> I am experimenting with a Euphoria pgm on as many platforms
> as I can get to. I noticed some anomalies on an 55sx w/ 8514
> display: don't know if the 55sx or the 8514 was the instigator.
The 8514 display is a bit weird. It doesn't follow SVGA standards.
I think it is kind of obsolete now.
> ctrl-delete did not delete a line in ED.
Yes, I've found that some machines do not support control-delete.
That's why I also allow control-d for line deletion.
> text colors were not displayed in ED. The menu bar was
> colored properly, but all text was presented in black on a
> gray background - no red for comments, nor green for
> sequences, etc.
> The interactive trace screen worked properly, but was presented
> as white text on a black background.
video_config() must be reporting that this is a mono monitor.
Both the editor and the trace screen call video_config().
ed will turn off color syntax highlighting if it believes it is working with a
mono monitor. I'm not sure how the WATCOM routine that Euphoria calls is determi
ning
this, but the 8514 must be confusing it.
Thanks for the info. I haven't run Euphoria on a machine like this before.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
