Changes made are not accepted by COBOL-WOW

[soniabharat]

Hi,

I use DOS editor to write files.I make changes in my file and save it.When I go to WOW-Designer it shows me coding having some changes accepted and some not.
I make changes like I change
ENTER-ADDR1 to ENTER-ATT-ADDR1
and then I change
some Paragraph name to
MTATTDET-ENTER-ADDR1-CHANGE
I save file.
but when I compile it
it shows me error in paragraph name saying procedure name MTATTDET-ENTER-ATT-ADDR-CHANGE0 not defined.

Infact I never wrote such paragraph name earlier also.Like it adds Zero of its own after word CHANGE.

Thx
Sonia

 

[Guest_imported]

Your WOW tool may not handle special characters(such as <tab>) that the DOS editor might be generating. Try using an editor, like UltraEdit that will display your code in hexadecimal values and clean up all special characters you might be generating.

 

[bonzer]

I think that rlacox is correct in the suggestion made. I can recommend UltraEdit as a tool, having been using it for a couple of years now. I guess that you are editing outside of Cobol-Wow because of the fact that you have a large amount of code in the edit window and that is too big for the Wow edit. What I find simplest is to use copy files in conjunction with Cobol-Wow and UltraEdit. The advantage being that both can be visible on the desktop at the same time. This probably best used as a copy for say the Project, Procedure Division which would only contain a
copy &quot;myproj.prc&quot;.
and then that file can be edited externally whilst paragraphs/sections in it can be performed from code in the Cobol-Wow edit window.

Did you know that version 3 has been released? It has better design functionality and improved ActiveX support etc etc. Have a look at the Liant website.