Macro - Place Display Attributes Before Posit

DocumentID: 651469
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:07 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The status line disappears when using display attributes. The customer has created menus using the ^P code for positioning. As soon as the user adds attribute codes to the menu display the status line disappears from the bottom of the screen. The user needs to see the status line in order to make decisions from the menu. Solutions: This has always happened this way. Place the attributes after the positioning commands in the prompt. What happens (if the display attributes are placed before any prompt positioning commands in a prompt) is the display attributes are read in before the position commands of the prompt. Thus, the prompt starts on the 25th line and the line is initialized. Then the position commands are read which will then place the prompt text at the desired position. Thus, it is always advisable to place display attribute commands after positioning commands.

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