PowerHouse 8.41 Windows extended character set and line drawi ng

[Pickering, John (NORBORD)]

Peter

Some thoughts -- mostly personal preferences ...

1. Line drawing takes up an awful lot of screen real estate. When machines
were slow and Quick taxed the limits of many small hp3000's, users wanted as
much on each screen as possible to avoid the pain of going from screen to
screen to screen. Our screen designs tended to ignore the line drawing stuff
as it took up just too much space.

2. Today, line drawing looks a bit hokey -- looks like somebody is trying to
give the screen a window-ish look without real GUI capabilities. Admit it,
it ain't windows!

3. If you absolutely have to do it, then at least use the bar "|" for
vertical lines, the dash "-" for horizontal lines and the plus "+" for
intersections instead of asterisks all around. These settings are all in the
qkgo file. But I'm assuming 8.41 still uses a qkgo file.

Regards,
JWP

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Bateman [mailto:shediac92@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 2:31 PM
To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject: PowerHouse 8.41 Windows extended character set and line drawing


To all:

Windows character set 1252 is popular with people who wish to display 
Latin-1 characters from the French, Spanish, German and Italian languages. 
HP's extended code page was Roman8 but Reflections would allow you to talk 
in Latin-1.  Line drawing was achieved on HP terminals through alternate 
character sets. To get QUICK to recognize that the terminal had the line 
drawing set we used for some terminals '-B' term type suffix. i.e. 
term=hp2623-B or we asked Quick to assume the HP terminal had line drawing 
through the qkgo parameter.

But Quick 8.41 is not displayed on an HP terminal but rather in a DOS
console.

Line drawing can be achieved by using a DOS code page
that contains MS-DOS line-drawing characters. For Latin-1 users that
would be DOS code page 850. However, if you want to interact with
windows applications you would want to use the Windows code page 1252.

Unfortunately,  you cannot map data that contains the MS-DOS
line-drawing characters into Windows because the Windows code pages don't 
contain line-drawing characters.

Can we use code page 1252 for entry and display and a line drawing
set for line drawing?

It is conceivable to convert between 1252 and 850 it would be no
fun especially, for cut and paste.

My current solution is to forget about line drawing and simply use
an asterisk in the DRAW command. Unfortunately, my application is
starting to look like it runs  on an ADM5.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Regards,
Peter











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