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Re: Help message problems

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From: TMOTA
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 02:42
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gpcec@westminster.ac.uk (Tom Kirby-Green) writes:

>wimp library - I figure its the ONLY way to learn ). Now the problem is I
>don't seem to be receiving Message_HelpRequest from the !Help app.
>        This message no. is 0x502. Now I know I can pick up messages because

Are you sure? I though it was 0x501... and the Helpreply was 0x502 (or is
my memory failing me again?!)

---

An easy test to do is to put a debugging 'printf' into your message handler
and print out the recieved message numbers... I use

bbc_vdu(26); bbc_vdu(4); /* get the cursor in VDU4 mode at top left of scren*/
printf("Message number: %x", blah);

or you could just use the printf, and redirect your programs output to
a file
(in !Run, change
  Run <Obey$Dir>.blah
to
  Run <Obey$Dir>.blah > <Obey$Dir>.output
)

This way, you'll know *what* messages you're actually recieving, which is
always a good place to start working out why nothing's happening...

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Subject: Re: Help message problems
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From: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 02:42:50 GMT
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