Re: Display file windows that look like dialog boxes

Yeah. That was it. I set a start position and I changed the size of the window and had to readjust some of the fields within it last night and it compiled and displayed fine. I would expect that if there were some "side effects" of creating a window too large to display it in graphical mode there would at least be a compiler warning issued. That would have made the diagnostics easier.

Thanks for the suggestions that you and Vern gave me. It DID push me into the Application Display Programming manual where I discovered some other cool stuff that I can use to make my "green screen" apps look and act a bit more modern. Your site, as always, is a great inspiration as well.
Pete


Booth Martin wrote:

I bet you nailed it. Am I reading this right? You window is 16 by 76 ? I wonder if the window is wrapping around, past column 80? what happens if the starting position is column 1 or 2?

Pete Helgren wrote:

Yes. Thanks. That appears to be the default value whenever I compile, so that doesn't appear to be the source of the problem.

I recompiled an older display file just to see if it made any difference. It didn't change the behavior of the old program.

So, I am stumped. I have several other programs that use a pattern similar to this and none have this problem. When they display they have a regular, graphical border.

Is it because the display size and the window size is so similar? Do I need to allow for more space around the window to allow for a border?

Pete


Booth Martin wrote:

There is a compile option:


Enhanced display . . . . . . . . ENHDSP *YES
From the Help Text:

" Enhanced display (ENHDSP) - Help Specifies whether the data being shown at a display station by this display file is using the enhanced capabilities available on the display station. *YES The data for the display file is shown using any enhanced capabilities available on the display station. These capabilities can include mnemonics, selection cursor, and graphical window borders. *NO The data for this display file is shown as it would be on a 5250
display station. No enhanced capabilities that are available on
the display, such as mnemonics, selection cursor, or graphical window borders, are used. This value is normally used to preserve character-based interaction across all display stations. "


That should be the issue. As to the Enhanced Controller bit... I believe the Enhanced Controller has been delivered for the past 10+ years, so it is probably a moot point today.

Pete Helgren wrote:

Been scratching my head over this one a bit before posting. Here is the question. What attributes do you set on a display file so that it will display with a nice, smooth border, like you can see here with Booth's examples: http://www.martinvt.com/Code_Samples/Dropdown_box/dropdown_box.html

I have some of these working just fine but I just created another one that has no subfile records, it is just a simple window with a few fields in it and it displays with the : : : : characters instead of a nice smooth graphical looking line around the border.

I can't see a difference in the way I am creating the display file but I can't get it to work. I used WDWBORDER but it got me no closer.

Display attributes are here:

A DSPSIZ(24 80 *DS3)
A CF24(24 'F24-Command')
A INDARA
A R RECORD1
A*%%TS SD 20071019 104657 PETE REL-V5R3M0 5722-WDS
A WINDOW(*DFT 16 76)
A CF04(04 'F4-Prompt')
A CF05(05 'F5-Reset')
A CF11(11 'F11-Delete')
A CF12(12 'F12-Cancel')
A WDWTITLE((*TEXT 'Professional devel-
A opment Information'))

Thanks,

Pete