RE: Screen field with 2 colours

> From: Albino Sousa
>
> Thanks to all of you that answer to my question. I did get it to work in
> following way:
>
>
>     if        wapoi <> *blanks
>     eval      xapoi = X'3A'      (now it's blue)
>     eval      xapoi = %trimr(xapoi) + a44cod
>     eval      wapoi = %trimr(wapoi) + xapoi
>     else
>     movel     a44cod        wapoi
>     endif
>
> By the way, i have to change the field in screen from 4 to 5
> positions, cos
> the hex attribute leave only one char free.

Just a quick note... using embedded display attributes like this is
relatively easy on the 5250 display, but it will cause you great
difficulties if you ever need to web enable the program.  HTML doesn't
understand 5250 display attributes, so instead you'll get weird symbols
embedded in your output fields.

Why couldn't you just make two fields, or condition the display attribute
with an indicator, or use a program-described attribute field?