Re: Display file puzzlement

On 19/04/2008, at 3:38 AM, John McKee wrote:

Thanks everyone for the help. I was trying to come up with what I had
done from
memory last night. Not as handy as being in front of the screen. I now have
PUTOVR at the record level, conditioned by an indicator. At the field
level, I
have OVRATR and DSPATR, also conditioned by an indicator. When I tested a few
minutes ago, there was no difference. It was only when I commented out the
ERRMSG that the DSPATR worked.

ERRMSG itself does what you were trying to achieve (and it uses a similar technique under the covers to send only the message text (OVRDTA) and attributes (OVRATR)) so one wonders why were you trying to use both techniques?

I am not so sure I like how ERRMSG works
anyway, since it locks the keyboard and only one error is shown.

The ERRSFL keyword will solve both those problems.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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