Supported screen driver codes:
Window define, select and init, clear and hold.
Window delete.
Window scroll up and down.
Clear from cursor to end of row / end of window.
Direct codes BEL, BS, HT, LF, VT, FF, CR and DEL.
All special characters.
Cursor to X, Y, XY.
Display attributes Cursor, Vertical and Horizontal scrolling, CapsLock
Bold, Tiny, Underline, Reverse and Grey.
Text Justification and Margins.
Supported keyboard driver codes (CLI):
All standard ASCII character keys.
Special keys Index, Menu, Help.
Special keys Enter, Tab, Del, Arrow Left, Right, Down, Up and Space,
alone and with Shift, Diamond or Square.
Special keys Diamond and Square, pressed and released followed by other keys.
Limitations in the Z88.
When redirecting output, scrolling output like from a BASIC LIST or a
Filer Catalogue Files command, is not paused with a Page Wait at each screen full.
When redirecting input, Menu and Help screens are not properly output.
991002 v.0.1
Support for cursor, justification, left and right margin.
991002
Print user defined characters as the character of their code (@ to DEL).
991003
Generate r beeps m long with s wait is parsed but only one beep output
Send nn copies of code mm implemented
Justification fixed
991004
Increased receive buffer from 1 to 8K.
991005
Justification really fixed
Output codes 155-158 as black squares same as 127.
Send nn copies of code mm changed
991006
Choice of com port saved in ini-file.
Cable information.
991007
Support CapsLock attribute
Restrict 'Output nn copies of code mm' to current line.
First try at "Blank hole" handling.
991008
Disabled blank hole handling.
Changed version to 0.2.
991009
Support new undocumented screen driver code for Window Delete.
991019
First try at sending keyboard data to Z88 with redirected input.
991020
Support for special and shifted keys.
New menus Edit, Copy Screen, User Area and Window.
991027
Implemented copy to clipboard.
991029
Added arrow SHIFT and DEL symbols and full block cursor symbol,
duplicated Turkish characters at ISO Latin 3 and 5 positions,
and moved some characters in the font, and changed mapping accordingly.
Now Edit, Copy commands work well.
Display the font character set at program load.
991102
Corrected horizontal scrolling.
Changed version to 0.3.
000611
Support Tiny attribute.
000613
Support Reverse Video attribute,
Apply and Invert current toggles.
000614
Support Underline, Grey, Bold attributes and
Grey/Ungrey current window.
000615
Fixed CapsLock in window 7.
000616
Moved Window.Initialized from WinReset to WinCls.
Fixed Screen copy as bitmap.
If you don't already have mscomm.vbx and vbrun300.dll in your \windows\system\ directory:
Download ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/MSCOMM.EXE. Self-extracting archive, 27K, containing mscomm.vbx Visual Basic Communications Control. Version of mscomm.vbx needs to be at least 2.1.0.1.
Download ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/VBRUN300.EXE. Self-extracting archive, 241K, containing the Visual Basic 3.0 runtime library, vbrun300.dll.
If you are interested in having a look at the source code,
Download z88-xcon03.zip. Visual Basic 3.0 source code. 27K.
I guess a combination of 1,"2.[", 1,"2.]", null characters and specific sequences of window init and
hold commands could provide enough information to know when to save and restore screen or windows.
But how to know which of several suspended BASIC screens to restore? Sofar I have seen no possible
instance identification. Is it possible that the screens are stored in each instance memory space?
Well. Anyone have some thoughts on this?
Application | Window | Number | Left | Top | Width | Height | Type | Notes |
User area | 8 | 10 | 0 | 94 | 8 | |||
Topics | 7 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 8 | |||
Menu | 6 | 11 | 0 | 92 | 8 | No topics | ||
Menu | 6 | 10 | 0 | 94 | 8 | Topics | ||
6 | 11 | 0 | 27 | 8 | 129 | |||
6 | 39 | 0 | 27 | 8 | 129 | |||
6 | 67 | 0 | 27 | 8 | 129 | |||
6 | 95 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 129 | |||
6 | 11 | 0 | 92 | 8 | ||||
Help | 6 | 11 | 0 | 61 | 8 | 129 | ||
6 | 73 | 0 | 30 | 8 | 129 | |||
Index | Applications | 4 | 11 | 0 | 18 | 8 | 131 | |
2 | 11 | 2 | 18 | 6 | ||||
Suspended | 4 | 31 | 0 | 56 | 8 | 131 | ||
3 | 31 | 2 | 56 | 6 | ||||
Diary | Text | 2 | 11 | 0 | 79 | 8 | 129 | |
Date | 3 | 91 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 131 | ||
PipeDream | Map | 5 | 90 | 0 | 14 | 8 | 96 | Map |
Sheet | 1 | 10 | 0 | 80 | 8 | Map | ||
1 | 10 | 0 | 94 | 8 | No map | |||
BASIC | 1 | 10 | 0 | 94 | 8 | |||
Calculator | CALCULATOR | 5 | 20 | 0 | 33 | 8 | 131 | |
CONVERT | 4 | 56 | 0 | 22 | 8 | 131 | ||
Calender | 5 | 20 | 0 | 35 | 8 | 131 | ||
Clock | 5 | 60 | 0 | 16 | 8 | 131 | ||
Alarm | 6 | 30 | 0 | 54 | 8 | 131 | ||
5 | 30 | 2 | 54 | 6 | ||||
Filer | COMMANDS | 4 | 11 | 0 | 24 | 8 | 131 | |
Commands | 1 | 11 | 1 | 24 | 7 | |||
Directory | 4 | 37 | 0 | 54 | 8 | 131 | ||
Files | 2 | 37 | 1 | 54 | 7 | |||
PrinterEd | 1 | 11 | 0 | 92 | 8 | 129 | ||
Panel | 1 | 11 | 0 | 92 | 8 | 129 | ||
Terminal | 1 | 11 | 0 | 80 | 8 | 129 | ||
Imp-Export | 1 | 11 | 0 | 92 | 8 | 129 |