RE: Position Cursor on a Display File

Hi Joe,

        Faced with this same problem I wrote a wrapper to QdfRtvFd which is
extremely complicated but does have the feature of getting the field names
and row column info by format from the object itself.  You could of course
get the information from the dds source, but if you change the source
without immediately promoting the change the info will be wrong.

        If you are interested in the wrapper let me know.

Regards
Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Joe Giusto II (E-mail)
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 9:29 AM
To: RPG400-L@midrange. com (E-mail)
Subject: Position Cursor on a Display File


I recently learned about positioning the cursor in a display file by using
the CSRLOC keyword and setting the field values to the desired line and
column before writing the display.

Does anyone know of a way to get these values based on field name in the
display file so that I will not have to hard code the row and column in my
program?  (outside of storing the value in a hidden field in the display
file as I have already been shown).

The purpose being to allow the fields to be moved around on the display file
without having to change the hard coded values for positioning the cursor.

TIA

Joe Giusto II
Programmer/Analyst
Ritz Camera
Beltsville, MD
301-419-3209 x347
410-813-2812 x347


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