Re: Quick question about subfiles

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How about something like this?
Define a 72-column output-only subfile field.
if the data is 72 characters or less, fine, just populate your subfile 
record.
If the data is longer than 72 characters, then scan backwards from 
column 68, looking for a blank column.  Substring a subfile record up to 
that blank and cat an ellipsis.  Then substring the rest of the field 
onto the next subfile record.
Perhaps right adjust that second record and non-display the selection 
field, as visual signals to the user?
For this application you might want to add a scroll bar, in case the 
record splits across two panels, thus allowing a user to easily  pop up 
or down a line or so.

As a side note, if there is  only one selection option available to the 
user then you can leave off the selection field and:
SFLSNGCHC allows picking with a mouse click or arrow key-space bar and 
no selection field, thus saving 2 or 3 columns.
SFLSNGCHC(*SLTIND) puts a radio button in place of the Selection field.****
Here is a screen shot.
http://www.martinvt.com/Subfiles/Two_Subfiles/two_subfiles.html

On 9/12/2013 3:58 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> I've got a situation where I'm using a subfile on an 80-column screen as
> a table/schema selection prompt in my JDBCR4 project, where I'm listing
> perhaps hundreds of items that will usually have names that will easily
> fit in one line, but could theoretically have names up to 128 characters
> long.
>
> Displaying the records all folded gives a funny-looking screen display
> with lots of wasted space, but displaying them all truncated could leave
> long names cut off.
>
> Obviously, I could simply let the user switch between SFLFOLD and
> SFLDROP for the entire screen, but I was wondering if there was an easy
> way to selectively fold the records with long names, and drop the ones
> with short names.
>
> One thought that occurred to me would be to display the excess length on
> a second subfile record with the selection column field suppressed. Has
> anybody done anything like that? Is there an easier way to accomplish
> the desired goal?
>
> --
> JHHL