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No, I don't think so. The SBASIC commands are completely different from DBAS ones.

No, though I did check my old hard disc and found the details from when I sold all my old QL stuff many years ago. Just wish I hadn't now, but it has made me look at using the DBAS engine instead, so it's not all bad news!

Hi, I'm having a little problem with a program I am developing. It has two application windows containing various different menus depending on the context. When changing the context, I do a MAWCLEAR#channel,appw followed by a new MAWDRAW statement for the new application window menu. This seems to r...

Yes, I think there were one or two versions released before PROWESS was released

I'm looking for a copy of the ORIGINAL DataDesign for QDOS, i.e. NOT the PRowess version.

I'm not sure the engine can be accessed from SBASIC, as no new keywords appear to be added when you load engine_rext.

I was looking at the PROGS download site and noticed that the DataDesign engine is freely available now. However, there doesn't appear to be a file for the SBASIC extensions. Is this available or has it not been released into the PD?

It's not the dummy parameter, as I have tried that...I think the menuc% variable must be getting corrupted as suggested....will continue investigating.

Thanks

The follow code works okay is SBASIC MWINDOW#menuc%,3! : REMark Set window area over info window 3 WM_BLOCK#menuc%,20,4,0,0,4 When compiled with QLIB it fails with 'invalid parameter'. The information window is 652x4, so the block will fit in it. Is there some sort of compatibility issue with WM_BLO...

Clearly I'm doing something wrong. My code has the position set as follows: 2260 IF Q_MYJOB THEN 2270 MDRAW#drop%,"EZPFILES",14,50 2280 ELSE 2290 MDRAW#drop%,win1_dev_ezpfiles_men,14,50 2300 END IF The menu has been saved with FIXED selected and appended to the relevant appman file and pic...