Re: Display file puzzlement

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What behavior are you not seeing that you would like to see?  The cursor 
should position at the first field in error and all fields in error 
should reverse image.  I am unclear as to what reverse image.hi light 
would look like. White with black letters perhaps?

As to redisplay, I am not following that.  If you do a validity check 
and their is an error, you have to rewrite the screen:  Something like 
this is what I do:

c          dou   *in90 = *off
c          exfmt  screen
c          exsr    validatation
c          enddo
....
c   validation   begsr
c                    eval   *in90 = *off
c     do stuff....
c                     if    any errors
c                     eval   *in90  =  *on
c                     endif
c                     endsr

(Of course,  use other indicators for each error, so you can display the 
fields in error.)

I suspect this is pretty basic and may even offend you, but its what I 
do.  :)





John McKee wrote:
> Adding DSPATR was my idea to make it a little better.  Original code did not
> have DSPATR(RI HI PC) in it.  The ERRMSG line does display, with and without
> the DSPATR keyword. I was wondering if I needed to use a keyword to force
> redisplay.  I had seen that in the manual, but when I looed at another display
> file, did not see it used.
>
> John McKee
>
>