RE: Text editing

Ron,

Define your screen input field as one long field using the continuous entry
keyword.  (Can't remember the keyword.)  You can do this in DDS for the
Display file.  Write the one field to the data base as your varying length
and let the workstation controller format it for the screen.  Check out the
DDS manual.  This worked back on V3R2 and maybe earlier.  It allows for word
wrap and inserting into the middle wrapping the text for you.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Klein Ron [mailto:ron.klein@brctsg.com]
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 6:40 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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