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Steve wrote: >Nathan, >I think the problem with screen scraping is that the new end user >application is limited to the data provided by the host application that is >being scraped from. The subfile record may only contain customer name and >not customer number. Also, the subfile records may only contain a page of >the records that the user is interested in working with. ( how can the user >sort on order amount when the display buffer being scraped from only >contains 10 of the 100 orders of the customer? ) Whether the data is >scraped from a screen or from a pre dspf buffer, it still has the same That is an excellent point Steve, I hadn't even thought of that but should have. I remember "days long ago" being told to write subfiles that only loaded a partial data set to speed display time. Not so much an issue with the faster processors now, but a lot of code is no doubt that way ! Chuck
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