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Re: Receiving message 0x502, and win' Work Area flags...

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From: SMARTIN
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 10:38
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In article <1992Nov9.005325.24603@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>, jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz
(TMOTA) says:
>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...

How about using fprintf ? I always find this much simpler.

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Stuart Martin (Logica at ESOC)     smartin@esoc.bitnet

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