Re: Getting the field attributes of a subfile record

[email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (James W Kilgore)]

David,

You're right.  Just out of curiosity I took out the INDARA keyword from a 
display
file and compiled it.  The indicators used to set display attributes were made
into separate buffer positions on the output but only the response indicators
were on the input.

Now this may sound like a shotgun solution, but to avoid coding each indicator I
would:
1) create a data structure that uses a 99 char field to overlay the indicator
array, let's call it IndOutput
2) create a data structure that uses a 99 char field (IndSaved) and 99 element
array of 1 char each
3) just before writing to the subfile, I would move IndOutput to IndSaved and
output this as a hidden field for each subfile record.
4) just before refreshing the subfile record with the new data, I could test the
status of each indicator from IndSaved's corresponding array and could then set
the corresponding display indicator

Naturally, if the shop standard is to use a block of indicators for display
conditioning, the fields and arrays could be smaller.

HTH,
James W. Kilgore
email@James-W-Kilgore.com

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david.kahn@gbwsh.mail.abb.com wrote:

>
>
> I think this is probably a blind alley. Most RPG programmers are not
> familiar with INDARA because the indicators are automatically defined in
> the program, and it makes sense for them to be in the record area.

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