OpenEuphoria

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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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