RE: Overlays and page segments

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Lazarus wrote:

>>An overlay is like a full page "background" and a page segment is a single
>>graphic that you can place anywhere on the page.  Think of the overlay as
>>all the stuff you'd order from the printer when placing an order for
>>pre-printed forms.  Think of the page segment as the individual long
>>distance logos you see on your phone bill.  Sometimes they're an inch down
>>the page, sometimes 5 inches down, some pages not at all.
>
>  So the difference is mainly in their usage, not any major technical 
>difference, right?

An overlay is a different object type on the AS/400 than a page segment.
Internally they are different, but I haven't done any research to pick out
those differences.  "Major" technical difference?  I can't say.  I suppose
it depends on how much you want to bend them away from their intended use.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"Nothing is so firmly believed as
 that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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