Re: Help with LotusScript for a text box. Please.

Any chance you can change the 5250 end?  Dump using a subfile, and a 
separate record in a file for each line of notes.  Instead use a variable 
length field.  When we lost OV/400 and storing our Notes in OV/400 
documents this is what we did instead.  Granted, doing variable length 
fields is a lot simpler on html and notes than it is on 5250 screens, but 
it is doable.  Subfiles s... for multiple lines of notes.  You delete 
three characters in the first line and you have to manually adjust the 
rest.

Rob Berendt
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Hello,

I have an application that I inherited from a custom house. This 
application is a Notes face on an existing iSeries database application. 
Therefore things like the comments field directly correspond to a file 
that has one record for each line and each line can only be 70 
characters long to work with sub-file displays. The custom house appends 
these lines using the implode function into a multi-value text field 
when they update the Notes application and then use explode when they 
update the native database.

The problem I am having is when the Notes user needs to create/add to 
the comments field the custom house used @DIALOGBOX and a form with 2 
hidden fields and one input field. The first hidden field (WTEXT) has 
the following LotusScript:

NewList := WTEXTOLD + "~" + @Left(WTEXTNEW; 70);

@If(WTEXTOLD = "";
    @Left(WTEXTNEW; 70);
    @Explode(NewList; "~")
)

The second hidden field (WTEXTOLD) has:

@Implode(WTEXT; "~")

The editable field (WTEXTNEW) has a notation to the user that they can 
only input 70 characters and that they have to re-execute this form to 
add each line. This field is not multi-value and the display does not 
allow multiple lines. Two settings that I believe will have to be 
changed for the following.

What the users want is to be able to type as much as they want at once, 
and have the application automatically split lines at 70 characters 
(splitting words is OK, word wrap is not needed but would be nice) or 
where ever they pressed enter.

Not having gotten into LotusScript far enough yet to handle this can 
anyone provide links to some example code or care to suggest how to 
change this?

Thanks Very Much.

Roger Vicker, CCP

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