RE: Text editiing

Ron,

I don't understand why you are doing the tilde thingy.  Please explain.  Are
you showing only one 30-character entry field and forcing the user to press
enter at the end of each line typed?  Bleahhh!  That doesn't seem very
user-friendly.

Also, I don't think that the fact that this is a varying length field has
any bearing on how you treat it on the display.  Other than to inform us
that the user can enter an "unlimited" amount of text.  What is the maximum
amount of text that your users can enter?  The answer to that will go a long
way in helping you figure out what you need to do.

Have you considered using the CNTFLD (Continued-Entry Field) keyword?  If,
for example, you want to limit your users to keying five 30-character lines,
you could use the following spec:

     A            DSTEXT       150   B 17  2CNTFLD(030) WRDWRAP 

Using this spec, the 150-character field will be broken into 5 lines of 30
characters each.  If you "insert" something on the top line, the following
lines will move as well.  You can also use the WRDWRAP keyword, as shown
above, but understand that when  a word wraps, you are basically inserting
blank characters at the end of the line.

Note that the CNTFLD & WRDWRAP keywords require that the display device is
attached to a controller that supports an enhanced interface for
nonprogrammable work stations, otherwise the keywords will be ignored.

This won't work for "unlimited" text entry.  In that case, let me know, as I
conquered that beast several years ago.  ;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Klein Ron [mailto:ron.klein@brctsg.com]
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 9:40 AM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L (E-mail)
Subject: Text editiing


Hi All,
We have a program with which we edit a varying length field and when we
place this field in the file we add a tilde at the end of each line that is
displayed.  On the screen we show this field as a 30 character field.  When
we load this field we add a tilde whenever the user hits enter on the screen
or every 30 characters whichever is smaller.

So in our file we would have something like this:This is the time for us~to
fix this problem the in the r~ight way.~

We need to figure out a way for the text to shift on a blank space and move
it to the next line.

Does any one have a procedure or maybe a c runtime procedure or advise on
how I should go about doing this.

TIA
Ron
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