Re: Word wrap in Multiple Line Field of Screen ?

Vern,

On a non-CNTFLD field it did wrap on input - nice enough. Only
> problem is that the extra spaces at the end of one line become part
> of the field.


I think I've used this most often without CNTFLD, so had forgotten about the
issues with that.

I also tend to use it for taking note/memo type entries where it is later
redisplayed using identical widths, so having the extra spaces as part of
the field data itself does not really become a factor.

So yes, it is perhaps less than ideal but still much better than nothing
(especially without CNTFLD).  But neither can it be a design change request
do anything about it easily because it isn't just a DDS issue, it is a 5250
data stream issue.  So for twinax devices, a hardware change is needed in
the WS controller though for telnet clients only a software change is
needed.

Doug






And this happens when both CNTFLD and WRDWRAP are used,
> too - the field gets changed without user input!  NASTY!
>
> Another surprise (I think these are documented) is that you cannot
> insert if you are on the first character of the second line (the one
> after the wrap). I was able to insert when on the end of line 1, but
> as soon as I got to line 2, no more insert.
>
> Have you had better luck with this? Have you had different results? I
> think the machine I used is at V5R2.
>
> Vern
>
>
> At 08:52 AM 12/20/2005, you wrote:
>
> >Rob,
> >
> >Or, if you want a real exercise in frustration, you can try submitting a
> > > Design Change Request to come up with a similar keyword for DDS.
> >
> >
> >Umm, how about if they call it WRDWRAP?  Oh wait, they already did that.
> >It's been in DDS for what, 12+ years now?  IIRC, it got added when the
> >so-called enhanced WS controllers were introduced and didn't that happen
> >around V2 something?  I'd hazard a guess that anymore there are very few
> >400's still running which have the older WS controller which doesn't
> support
> >the feature.  Various telnets client may or may not implement all the
> >features of the enhanced 5250 data stream, but this is one of that I
> suspect
> >pretty much all of them should support.
> >
> >There is also the BLDFOLD keyword for output only fields, but for
> >input/output fields you want to use WRDWRAP and CNTFLD too if it inside a
> >window or the the left edge of subsequent lines should start in something
> >other than column 1.
> >
> >Doug
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