OpenEuphoria

RE: put_screen_char() doesn't work with EX under Windows

• Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at cnw.com> May 09, 2001
• 603 views

Robert Craig once said:

This is a known bug.
The test in put_screen_char() should be:

     if overflow > 0 then   -- correct

not:

     if overflow then   -- wrong

Please correct your copy of image.e
It will be corrected this way in 2.3.
Not many people use this routine.

martin.stachon at worldonline.cz wrote:
> When I tried to use put_screen_char() with Ex.exe (under Win98) i got 
> this error:
> 
> C:\EUPHORIA\include\image.e:337 in procedure put_screen_char() 
> slice ends past end of sequence (32 > 2) 
>     line = 1
>     column = 65'A'
>     char_attr = {57'9',2}
>     scr_addr = 753792
>     vc = {1,3,25,80'P',0,0,32' ',8}
>     overflow = -30
>  
> It is a bug or put_screen_char() cannot be used under Windows?
> 
>