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Unfortunately, Wolfgang's documentation describes the raw binary format expected by config. Tony's macros, however (which are a bit fragile and not absolutely obvious to use) are not described there. I seem to recall my original QPTR documentation had some description of the config macros, but more...

The official documentation for Config may also help. It's downloadable from Wolfgang's web site at https://www.wlenerz.com/qlstuff/Config.zip.

Cheers,
Norm.

Hi T0nyt, you asked about using config as a QL best practice. You don't have to! My suggestion was simply a feeble attempt at humour. Sorry. However, as relates to your "menu" system, you will always be LRUNning the same S*BASIC program, so no need for a config block. However, if this was ...

And, for your next iteration, add a config block so that the command to be typed in is configurable without having to edit and reassemble the code! :D :D :D :D By the way, there was nothing wrong with your code, it worked. My comments were there to point you at "better" QDOS specific stuff...

If I may comment.... 1. In QDOS/SMSQ, strings are defined this way, with a leading word determining the length, followed by the characters of the string. runcmd dc.w cmdEND-runcmd-2 dc.b 'lrun win1_menu',$0A cmdEND equ * Doing it this way means never having to count characters when you change the st...

I agree 100% with what Dilwyn said.


Cheers,
Norm.

Nice!

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Norm.

Welcome. You are among friends here. Have fun.

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Norm.

artificer wrote:Norman Dunbar also wrote a screen grabber, possibly only mode 4 called I think Grabbit.

I fear you may have mistaken me for someone else! I wrote a couple of very bad ql2bmp and bmp2ql utilities many years ago, but never a screen grabber. At least, as far as I'm aware!


Cheers,
Norm.

A quote from Marcel in https://qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=21655#p21655: ... or continue to use "trap #15", the latter however must be enabled by the command "tl 15" (IIRC "Trap Level 15") to enter QMON, otherwise it will be ignored. Foxed me for a while when my trap ...