Object properties in text mode

[James Zukowski]

Part of our processing uses handheld scanners for picking inventory. We're using telnet connections on our intranet for the text-based scanning, since there's no WindX available.

I'm glad we can create at least some objects in text mode, like list_boxes. However, it seems that directly addressing the properties ('ItemCount, etc.) generates Error#65, even though it all works fine with a WindX connection. Is this correct operation? Are the properties maintained by WindX? Or only certain ones? Is there a way to determine which are available, other than trial and error?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Mike King]

The text mode emulation for controls was done back in the 1980s in preparation for migrating applications to Windows.

Many of the properties that have been added to the Windows controls over the years don't exist in the text mode emulations.