RE: ERRMSG in display file not displaying

There are a number of possibilities here.  You mentioned that the FKEYS
display on lines 23 and 24.  It's generally a good idea to leave line 24
open for messages.  If your FKEYS display on line 23 only (which is more
typical), be sure that you leave at least one position at the end of line 23
for the end-of-field attribute byte.  I've seen line 24 bombed by an
attribute byte that is positioned at line 24 position 1.

William K. Reger
Senior Project Manager
Levitz Furniture Corporation
Phone:  (561) 994-5114
E-mail:  breger@levitz.com <mailto:breger@levitz.com> 

                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Bale, Dan [mailto:DBale@lear.com]
                Sent:   Friday, May 12, 2000 5:41 PM
                To:     'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
                Subject:        ERRMSG in display file not displaying

                I've got an interactive inquiry application I'm developing,
actually cloned
                from an existing application.  The display file, also
cloned, uses ERRMSG to
                display error messages associated with a field.  When an
error occurs, the
                message flashes for a nanosecond at the bottom of the
screen, which most
                users won't be agile enough to read it.

                The display file is simply a subfile control record, a
subfile record, and a
                "normal" FKEYS record which displays the function keys on
line 23-24.  Both
                the subfile control record and the FKEYS record have the
OVERLAY keyword
                defined.

                The RPGLE application WRITEs the FKEYS record, then EXFMTs
the subfile
                control record.  All other aspects of the display function
correctly.

                Any ideas on the ERRMSG problem?

                (I've gotta get my model skeleton code uploaded.)

                TIA,
                Dan Bale
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