IO_TRAP

Syntax

IO_TRAP ( [#ch], D0 [,D1 [,D2 [,A1 [,A2 [,D3 ]]]]] )

Location

THOR XVI

This function enables you to directly access QDOS’s I/O TRAP (TRAP #3) machine code utilities. You need to supply the number of the TRAP call as the parameter D0, but you can also set certain of the other internal machine code registers used by the trap call by setting the other optional parameters. The TRAP call will affect the specified channel (default #1). Apart from parameter D3 (this defaults to -1), the purpose of the other parameters depends upon the TRAP call being used. Unless D3 is negative, ‘Not Complete’ errors will not be reported, thus allowing programs to continue even though their windows are buried under the THOR’s windowing system and therefore unusable. The return parameter is the value returned in the machine code register D0 by the call.

Example 1

A short program to get the current window sizes and cursor position in the variables Window_Width, Window_Height, Window_posx and Window_posy respectively:

100 a = ALCHP (8)
110 dummy=IO_TRAP (11,0,0,a) : REMark IOW.CHRQ TRAP
120 Window_Width = PEEK_W (a): Window_Height = PEEK_W (a+2)
130 Window_posx = PEEK_W (a+4): Window_posy = PEEK_W (a+6)
140 RECHP a

Example 2

Switch on the cursor in #1 (call IOW.ECUR):

t = IO_TRAP ( HEX ('E') )

Example 3

Set cursor to column x in #3 (call IOW.SCOL):

t = IO_TRAP (#3,HEX ('11'), x )

CROSS-REFERENCE

CLS, SCROLL and PAN all allow you to access machine code trap calls on different ROMs. INK contains a good example of how to use IO_TRAP. TTET3,MTRAP, QTRAP and BTRAP are much better as they can be used on all ROM versions. The QDOS/SMS Reference Manual (Section 15) contains details of the I/O Access Traps.