Re: Field filled in

THAT'S RIGHT. The user cannot do anything at that point. That's what I am
trying to capture, and let the program take over.
Is there anyway for the program to recognize this situation?

Alan

midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 09/01/2006 03:28:22 PM:

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. "

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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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