Gareth Horton
August 5th, 2002, 04:04 PM
Q: My report doesn't appear to be displaying properly on the screen. What might be causing this to happen?
A: It may be that the attempt to convert your file to ASCII was not completely successful. Your file may still contain unused print control characters, or leading control characters.
Both of these problems are easily addressed in Version 3.00 and later. Simply, select "Options" from the main menu and then select "input" from the drop down menu. From the "Input options dialog" look for the section at the bottom labeled, "Report translation area".
In this area there are 4 options:
Ignore form feeds
Ignore leading control characters
Ignore unused print control characters
Force page break at a certain line
While it is not a bad idea to experiment with all these settings, the ones that will likely address your problem are numbers 2 and 3.
For versions of Monarch previous to version 3.00 you can download the following files from the Datawatch FTP site or from the Tools menu in the Support section of the Datawatch web site to help you identify and eliminate most control characters:
EXAMINE.EXE: A utility that lists how many instances of each ASCII character appears in your report.
FILSTRIP.EXE: A utility to remove all unused "non-printable" characters below the ASCII value of 32.
[ August 05, 2002, 03:04 PM: Message edited by: Gareth Horton ]
A: It may be that the attempt to convert your file to ASCII was not completely successful. Your file may still contain unused print control characters, or leading control characters.
Both of these problems are easily addressed in Version 3.00 and later. Simply, select "Options" from the main menu and then select "input" from the drop down menu. From the "Input options dialog" look for the section at the bottom labeled, "Report translation area".
In this area there are 4 options:
Ignore form feeds
Ignore leading control characters
Ignore unused print control characters
Force page break at a certain line
While it is not a bad idea to experiment with all these settings, the ones that will likely address your problem are numbers 2 and 3.
For versions of Monarch previous to version 3.00 you can download the following files from the Datawatch FTP site or from the Tools menu in the Support section of the Datawatch web site to help you identify and eliminate most control characters:
EXAMINE.EXE: A utility that lists how many instances of each ASCII character appears in your report.
FILSTRIP.EXE: A utility to remove all unused "non-printable" characters below the ASCII value of 32.
[ August 05, 2002, 03:04 PM: Message edited by: Gareth Horton ]