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I think one thing about loading a subfile versus loading a select box in VB is that the select box can be loaded in the background while the user is performing other operations. Not sure about VaRPG. Bradley V. Stone bvstone@taylorcorp.com http://prairie.lakes.com/~bvstone/ "This is not a reasonable place to park?" > -----Original Message----- > From: boothm@ibm.net [SMTP:boothm@ibm.net] > Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 1998 7:34 PM > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > Subject: Re: what say you about subfiles? > > I just was looking over IBM's sample subfile program in VaRPG. I'd > copied, it, changed the file to display a data file on our AS/400 and > was > showing the output to someone that knows the data. The VaRPG subfile > offers a "navigator bar", and one of the icons is "Last page." He > clicked > it and laughed, saying "This is a 40,000 record file. Lets see..." > and > then looked really funny. Then he looked again and said "It can't > read > the file that fast!" > > To make a boring story short, a review of the code showed that the > last > page had been loaded by taking the number of records in the file and > subtracting the page size, and filling the subfile from that point. > Very > neat, very fast. Also a new technique I'd not seen before. > > All of which puts me of a mind to ask for a religious discussion on > subfiles. If DOU and DOW can start lengthy debate, I should think > proper > subfile techniques could be fascinating. > > One of the downsides of the technique described is that it appears to > work > on a physical file only, disregarding all logicals, even if specified. > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------- > boothm@ibm.net > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > +--- > | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! > | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. > | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to > MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. > | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: > david@midrange.com > +--- +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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