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#178871 - 2007-08-08 12:03 PM Display Command not working
BillBarnard BillBarnard Starting to like KiXtart Registered: 2007-03-14 Posts: 141 Loc: Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire...	I haven't used the Display command for ages now, but in KiXtart V4.53, I find it does nothing. break on $Fname = "Test.txt" Display $fname Display "Test.txt" ; No output at all Is this correct? Regards, Bill _________________________ Bill
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#178882 - 2007-08-08 01:10 PM Re: Display Command not working [Re: BillBarnard]
Witto Witto MM club member Registered: 2004-09-29 Posts: 1828 Loc: Belgium	Display works fine in KiXtart 4.53 maybe complete the path to your text file Code: Display "\\Server\Share\Deeper\Test.txt"
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#178889 - 2007-08-08 01:59 PM Re: Display Command not working [Re: Witto]
BillBarnard BillBarnard Starting to like KiXtart Registered: 2007-03-14 Posts: 141 Loc: Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire...	This doesn't work for me either. Nor does specifying the path, i.e. D:\test.txt I have just tried it in 10 old versions of KiXtart. Prior to V4.50 the Display command works for me, but every version after and including V4.50 doesn't work. What changed in V4.50 ? I'm using the standard Command Prompt in Win XP Pro SP2 Cheers, Bill _________________________ Bill
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#178890 - 2007-08-08 02:08 PM Re: Display Command not working [Re: BillBarnard]
Witto Witto MM club member Registered: 2004-09-29 Posts: 1828 Loc: Belgium	Do you really see nothing on the screen or do you see a littlebit of garbage? Something like Code: ÿ_T
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#178891 - 2007-08-08 02:15 PM Re: Display Command not working [Re: Witto]
BillBarnard BillBarnard Starting to like KiXtart Registered: 2007-03-14 Posts: 141 Loc: Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire...	Nope, not a sausage. $ = Redirectoutput("fred.txt",1) Actually sends output to fred.txt OK. And if I do:- $ = Redirectoutput("CON") Then it now works to screen. Strange eh? Bill _________________________ Bill
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#178894 - 2007-08-08 02:17 PM Re: Display Command not working [Re: BillBarnard]
Mart Mart KiX Supporter Registered: 2002-03-27 Posts: 4673 Loc: The Netherlands	This works just fine for me on 4.53 and 4.60 beta1. Notice the sleep 5 at the end. If you leave it out the contents of d:\test.txt flashes on the screen really fast so you cannot read it. Code: Break on $fname = "d:\test.txt" Display $fname sleep 5 _________________________ Mart - Chuck Norris once sold ebay to ebay on ebay.
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#178895 - 2007-08-08 02:19 PM Re: Display Command not working [Re: BillBarnard]
Mart Mart KiX Supporter Registered: 2002-03-27 Posts: 4673 Loc: The Netherlands	Originally Posted By: BillBarnard Nope, not a sausage. $ = Redirectoutput("fred.txt",1) Actually sends output to fred.txt OK. And if I do:- $ = Redirectoutput("CON") Then it now works to screen. Strange eh? Bill No not strange at all. First you tell kix to send all screen output to a file and then you want to display something in the console window so you need to tell kix that it should stop sending output to the file. _________________________ Mart - Chuck Norris once sold ebay to ebay on ebay.
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#178898 - 2007-08-08 02:35 PM Re: Display Command not working [Re: Mart]
BillBarnard BillBarnard Starting to like KiXtart Registered: 2007-03-14 Posts: 141 Loc: Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire...	But it didn't work to screen before redirecting it to CON. Even stranger - after testing on 2 PCs and not getting Display to work, and after redirecting to CON in a test script, it now works with other scripts that don't include the Redirectoutput("CON") command. It must be me. Sorry folks. I never could get the hang of Wednesdays. ;-) Bill _________________________ Bill
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#178899 - 2007-08-08 02:44 PM Re: Display Command not working [Re: BillBarnard]
Witto Witto MM club member Registered: 2004-09-29 Posts: 1828 Loc: Belgium	I don't get your problem What does this script show? Code: Break ON Display "%windir%" + "\win.ini" Get $RC Display displays files (ASCII or ANSI) RedirectOutput() redirects script output [Edit] Ah, now I see You first redirect the output, then you display something. Yep, the displayed text is also redirected. [/Edit] Edited by Witto (2007-08-08 02:55 PM)
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#178901 - 2007-08-08 03:08 PM Re: Display Command not working [Re: Witto]
BillBarnard BillBarnard Starting to like KiXtart Registered: 2007-03-14 Posts: 141 Loc: Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire...	Thanks, it all works fine now. I tested different scripts on different PCs before posting, and I'm still puzzled as to why it now works. Before running these scripts I was also running Outlook and Access 2003. Perhaps one of these Apps interferred with CON output? But it's working now & I'm still running these progs. _________________________ Bill
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#178923 - 2007-08-08 05:22 PM Re: Display Command not working [Re: BillBarnard]
BillBarnard BillBarnard Starting to like KiXtart Registered: 2007-03-14 Posts: 141 Loc: Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire...	I've had one more go at this:- If the file you want to display is quite large, i.e. the one I was testing was 44K then nothing happens. With smaller files <32K ? it works, >32K ? it doesn't. Bug? _________________________ Bill
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#178924 - 2007-08-08 05:37 PM Re: Display Command not working [Re: BillBarnard]
Witto Witto MM club member Registered: 2004-09-29 Posts: 1828 Loc: Belgium	for kix32.exe v4.53 Code: Break On Display "C:\WINDOWS\WINNT32.LOG" @SCRIPTEXE ? @KIX ? Get $SO does not show the content of the log file (427kB). I presume you are right. I would start calling it a "hidden feature".
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#178926 - 2007-08-08 05:59 PM Re: Display Command not working [Re: Witto]
BillBarnard BillBarnard Starting to like KiXtart Registered: 2007-03-14 Posts: 141 Loc: Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire...	I copied and pasted your script into Test2.kix and ran it:- D:\>notepad test2.kix D:\>kix32 test2.kix KIX32.EXE 4.53 D:\> Look no output. I think early KiXtart scripting had limits on how large a file it could open, perhaps this is left over from the old days. Cheers, Bill _________________________ Bill
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#178952 - 2007-08-08 09:05 PM Re: Display Command not working [Re: BillBarnard]
Witto Witto MM club member Registered: 2004-09-29 Posts: 1828 Loc: Belgium	Is there a board master who also thinks this belong to the Beta forum?
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#178955 - 2007-08-08 09:21 PM Re: Display Command not working [Re: Witto]
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	yes, confirmed as bug in 4.50+ _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#178986 - 2007-08-09 10:01 AM Re: Display Command not working [Re: Lonkero]
BillBarnard BillBarnard Starting to like KiXtart Registered: 2007-03-14 Posts: 141 Loc: Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire...	Versions prior to V4.50 are OK. So something happened in the V4.50 code for the Display command. _________________________ Bill
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#178987 - 2007-08-09 10:03 AM Re: Display Command not working [Re: BillBarnard]
BillBarnard BillBarnard Starting to like KiXtart Registered: 2007-03-14 Posts: 141 Loc: Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire...	Also doesn't work in V4.60 Beta 1 _________________________ Bill
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#179014 - 2007-08-09 04:20 PM Re: Display Command not working [Re: BillBarnard]
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	yep, that's why it's in beta $;\)$ _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#179220 - 2007-08-13 10:30 AM Re: Display Command not working [Re: Lonkero]
Ruud van Velsen Ruud van Velsen Developer Registered: 1999-05-06 Posts: 391 Loc: Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Hi guys, thanks for this report. This is indeed a bug (undoc'd feature...). I'll try to address it in the netxt build of 4.60. Kind regards, Ruud
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#179221 - 2007-08-13 10:56 AM Re: Display Command not working [Re: Ruud van Velsen]
Ruud van Velsen Ruud van Velsen Developer Registered: 1999-05-06 Posts: 391 Loc: Amsterdam, The Netherlands	And just to close the loop: found and fixed (in the next build of 4.60). This build will hopefully be released later this week. Thanks again! Ruud
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