dcgetoptions colorgets and dcmultiline

[skiman]

Hi,

I was testing with dcgetoptions colorgets and came to the conclusion that a dcmultiline doesn't use this setting as default. Any reason for this?

[rdonnay]

No reason. It was never requested before now.

If I change it now, it would probably have a negative affect on existing applications.

I could pass another parameter to tell it to include multilines. Would that be acceptable?

[skiman]

Hi Roger,

Yes, that would be a good option. This will not break existing code, and will make it easy to add this to a complete application.

[Tom]

I use the PRESENTATION clause of DCMULTILINE:

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aML_Presentation := {{XBP_PP_FGCLR,<bnMyColor1>},{XBP_PP_BGCLR,<bnMyColor2>},;
                             {XBP_PP_HILITE_FGCLR,<bnMyColor3>},{XBP_PP_HILITE_BGCLR,<bnMyColor4>}}

@ x,y DCMULTILINE ... PRESENTATION aML_Presentation

<bnMyColor1 ... 4> are almost the same as the ones used for the "COLORGETS" clause.

A preprocessor command can be used to add "PRESENTATION aML_Presentation" to every DCMULTILINE, so very low code changes are necessary.