RE: IBM getting rid of RPG

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Joe, I agree that it is not impossible (even easy, most of the time).
> There are some issues I have had problems with, like field sensitive help.
> On a green screen you position the cursor on a field (either input or
> output),
> then you press F1 to get help. How do you that in your web-interface?

Three ways:

1. Full panel help, rather than a single field.  Pop up a second panel that
has help for the entire screen.  With HTML you have that luxury.

2. Field sensitive help using the onFocus method.  This allows you to keep
track of the current field.

3. For a fixed-font screen, you can calculate the row and column of the
cursor when a key is pressed.  This requires the use of the DOM event model.

It depends on what paradigm you want to use.

Joe

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