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Jim

Delphi Developer
Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Graphical Mess Ups

Hey,
I've created a stock control system that uses a graphical HCI,
but when I try to manipulate certain files, the top-half of the
screen scrolls up, leaving grey blocks where it once was. After
it has finished the file operation, everything seems fine, apart
from the messy screen. I would appreciate it if anyone can tell
my why this might be happening (attempting to use a non-existant
file, etc).

Thanks in advance

James

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Dr John Stockto

Delphi Developer
Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:Graphical Mess Ups


JRS:  In article <177bbeea.cd77e...@usw-ex0105-038.remarq.com> of Sun, 5
Mar 2000 14:23:03 in news:comp.lang.pascal.borland, Jim <james_darleyNOj

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aS...@hotmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>Hey,
>I've created a stock control system that uses a graphical HCI,
>but when I try to manipulate certain files, the top-half of the
>screen scrolls up, leaving grey blocks where it once was. After
>it has finished the file operation, everything seems fine, apart
>from the messy screen. I would appreciate it if anyone can tell
>my why this might be happening (attempting to use a non-existant
>file, etc).

Could it be that you are causing writes as text, rather than as
graphics. to the screen?  Perhaps under error circumstances only?

If you normally run the program as C:\...> prog, try C:\...> prog > nul

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Martin Stah

Delphi Developer
Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:Graphical Mess Ups


Quote
Jim wrote:

> Hey,
> I've created a stock control system that uses a graphical HCI,
> but when I try to manipulate certain files, the top-half of the
> screen scrolls up, leaving grey blocks where it once was. After
> it has finished the file operation, everything seems fine, apart
> from the messy screen. I would appreciate it if anyone can tell
> my why this might be happening (attempting to use a non-existant
> file, etc).

> Thanks in advance

> James

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I think you have somewhere in your source code commands like "WRITELN"
or "READLN". This commands cause a line feed, and for this reason you
have a grey bar on the screen. And the whole graphic screen moves
down.
If there is something like that in your source code
   GOTOXY(1,12);
   WRITELN(hello);
the screen will be devided by a grey bar.

I hope this helps

regards

Martin
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