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What were those like? I never used any xBase. How was it different?

• dardeaup 2y ago
  To display text it was as simple as: @ row, col say "First Name:" to draw a box: @ top_row, top_left to bottom_row, bottom_right there was built-in support for menus. there were commands to save the screen to variable and then restore the screen. main_screen = savescreen restscreen(main_screen) Everything was really simple. Forms were super easy. There was a command of the form: @ row, col say "First name:" get first_name @ row+1, col say "Last name:" get last_name read
  • kragen 2y ago
    Interesting. So you put a series of commands one after the other on the same line of code with no delimiters?
    • dardeaup 2y ago
      No, sorry, that was me not formatting properly with my comments. Each statement would be on a separate line: @ x, y say "First name" @ col2, y get first_name @ x, y+2 say "Last name" @ col2, y+2 get last_name read
      • kragen 2y ago
        I see. So that would generate a form that you could tab around in and enter data into?
        • mercurialuser 2y ago
          Yes. Going back to the top or confirming tha data when exiting the last field was a setting. You may have multiple commands on one row but you have to separate them with a ;