Re: DDS screen: how to ensure field keyed is numeric for alpha-descri bed field -- MIDRANGE-L

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Hi Richard,

Don't leave us in suspense! Tears of admiration or disgust? What's the
trick?

Curious<G>

Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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From: Richard Jackson

> Before display, they move the numeric field into an array, insert the >
editing, then move it to the character display field.
> Any you performance types wondered why JDE used so many cycles :)  The >
trick used to perform decimal alignment still brings tears to my eyes.



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