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Geo Kinkladze
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Posted: 10th Mar 2006 13:57
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Downloaded the trial last night, went through the first tutorial, tells you to switch to CLI and Print "Hello World", which i do. Nothing appears when I press enter(Is it suppose to appear at the top?), it just returns to the prompt >>. Anyway i retyped the command a few times, made a purposeful error and got an error message, so it is at least recognising what I type. I have searched the forums and other people have had flashing screens with Win XP. I don't have that problem. I have win XP.

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Pincho Paxton
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The CLI works for me. I haven't gone through that tutorial, don't know what exactly it teaches you, but I doubt you will hardly ever use the CLI anyway, so you may as well skip it. The only reason to use the CLI is for printing stuff to a physical printer. Most DB Classic programs run on the screen, without the CLI.

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blanky
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Quote: "The only reason to use the CLI is for printing stuff to a physical printer."


No, CLI just allows you to run commands on the spot. Using the 'print' command in the CLI does *not* "print" the text, it displays it on the screen; like the 'print' command always does.

Geo: Admittedly you could get away with skipping that tutorial, but try running 'cls' and then running the print "hello world" command. Might work, might not.

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 11th Mar 2006 17:06 Edited at: 11th Mar 2006 17:16
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Quote: "No, CLI just allows you to run commands on the spot. Using the 'print' command in the CLI does *not* "print" the text, it displays it on the screen; like the 'print' command always does."


I didn't mean that using the print command prints things to a printer. I meant that the best way to print text is to send it to an external windows CLI, and then use the Print command in the menu option. I think we are talking about two different things anyway. I meant an external CLI, and I think this is about the Editor's command interface, which I totally forgot about, because I have never used it.

Yeah...

Print "Hello World"

Should show up at the top of the screen.

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Geo Kinkladze
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Posted: 11th Mar 2006 20:12
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Here's a screenshot of the problem..

I have tried cls and Sync on also.

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BearCDPOLD
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Quote: "I didn't mean that using the print command prints things to a printer. I meant that the best way to print text is to send it to an external windows CLI, and then use the Print command in the menu option. I think we are talking about two different things anyway. I meant an external CLI, and I think this is about the Editor's command interface, which I totally forgot about, because I have never used it."


Ya lost me there dude.

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Is the program in a loop? It may be sync or cls-ing over your Hello World.


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nojbox87
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Quote: "Ya lost me there dude."

same..sorry but im not good with abbreviations or technical stuff

and yes could u post the exact code you are using?
and have your tried putting 'wait' at the end of the code? just an idea.

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Posted: 14th Mar 2006 12:48
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try typing the program into the editor rather than the cli. typing into the cli will run it there and then, great for debugging, object positioning, etc.

it may be a long shot, but your pc may not support backbuffering. i had the same problem with a 2nd hand pc i bought.

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Geo Kinkladze
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The exact code I was using was

Print "Hello World"

I have given up on DBC trial and downloaded DBPro trial instead. DBPro seems to work fine.
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