RE: RE :RE: Text editiing

["Martin, Booth" <BoothM@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

32,000?!?!  man, that is a bummer to deal with, 35 characters at a time.  A
user will be paging through panels forever to proofread the thing.

At those lengths consider another solution altogether, like Visual Age RPG
which has a multiedit part that essentially gives you cut & paste, insert,
copy, wordwrap, and scrollbars.  Trying to resolve the problems of a 32,000
character field on a green screen seems quixotic at the least and
masochistic at the worst.

-----Original Message-----
From: Klein Ron [mailto:ron.klein@brctsg.com]
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 11:46 AM
To: boothm@goddard.edu
Subject: RE :RE: Text editiing


Martin,

The CNTFLD keyword does do the job because it will allow half the word to
remain on the first line and not move it at the blank break.  BLKFLD would
probably work but it is not input capable, WRDWRAP functions the way we
want, but it will not allow for the sizing of the repeating field length on
each line.  It jsut comes out as one big long field running until the end of
the screen and then it continues until the end of the next screen line.  And
yes we do hav a max length (32,000)
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