Re: Field filled in

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What does happen in that scenario?  My memory says that the user can not 
push the characters to the right once the field is full.  That is the 
case even if the rest of the field is blanks.  In other words, even if 
you could do what you wanted, it wouldn't work anyway because your user 
could never get that far.   But my memory fogs with time, so I may have 
this all wrong.



Alan Shore wrote:
> In my example the user goes back to the same field and INSERTS extra text
> into that field, pushing some pre-existing text to the right. Eventually
> the right most character cannot go any further, but the cursor is NOT at
> the right most character. Hence CHECK(ER) will NOT work (or at least it
> doesn't on mine test sample)
>
> Alan
>
> midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 09/01/2006 03:03:33 PM:
>
> > Ok, then what do you want to do under what circumstances? The CHECK(ER)
> > would return to the program and you can check anything out that you want
> > about the last character, or ANY character.... ???
> >
> > "is there a way for the program to realize that the last character is
> > NOT blank. "
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan Shore
> > Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 2:03 PM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > Subject: RE: Field filled in
> >
> > Thanks for your reply Dave. I think what you are talking about is
> > CHECK(ER).
> > I do use this, however if you re-read my example, the cursor is NOT at
> > the end of the field. That's my predicament.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 09/01/2006 02:27:16 PM:
> >
> > > Actually, there is a possibility of making the block oriented data
> > > stream work something like what you want. It's been a long time, but
> > > there is something you can put into DDS that tells the system to do an
> > > auto-Enter type of action. If you were to put that on each field, as
> > > the user went from field to field, the display would return to the
> > program.
> > > You would then determine what field was entered, if it was correct or
> > > not, and re-write the screen with the cursor placed where you wanted
> > > it to be.
> > >
> > > Don't know if it's practical, but I have used it in the past.
> > > Primarily on the last record of a subfile used in heads down entry.
> > > When the user hit the last field, the screen would automatically
> > > refresh and the user would be able to continue entry with no
> > > hesitation - OR - keying over information already entered...
> > >
> > > Spoz that could stir up a bee's nest maybe... :-)
> > >
> > > Dave
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