RE: DDS Display attributes

Alan,

You haven't said Why you want to do this (i.e., variable HL/RI). Just a wag here, but maybe you have a composite field for which you want to indicate the portion(s) that may be in error or otherwise unacceptable. If so (or something similar), since it isn't possible to HL/RI part of a field (without intervening spaces), you might display a second field under the first that uses asterisks to mark the portion of the field that you want to HL/RI.

For example, if the field = 'ABCDEF; and you want to highlight 'CD', you might display:

Field: ABCDEF
**

Anyway, I've done that sort of thing in the past for the situation I've described. (Dashes also work as far as making a user aware of the situation.) Of course, if the panel is chock full of stuff or this is a subfile, that's another issue.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
B&W Wholesale
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email: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan Shore
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 12:44 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: DDS Display attributes

AAAhhhh
That I didn't know/realize - Rats
I'll have to think about this

Thanks for your reply sjl


Alan Shore
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midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 02/23/2009 01:31:16 PM:

Alan wrote:
Thanks for your reply Booth
If this gives me what I am looking for
ULTRA-NEAT


Alan -

As James mentioned, the attribute hex codes take up space, so your field
will need to be longer than 40 bytes.

Also be aware that if this is an input-capable field, that:
1) As soon as someone types over the attribute value, the HI/RI will
disappear
2) The attribute values will be stored in the database field along with

the

data, unless you parse it out first...

- sjl






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