Re: Window border display attributes mess up overlaid display

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

In my experience, funky windows come from them being to small.

Make it a bit bigger and make sure you've got at least 2 (?) characters
from the window border to the start or end of any field.

Charles

On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If you've been following on the RPG list, you may remember that I recently
> began a foray into the service program world.  So far, pretty good.  This
> particular issue has me baffled, and google has not been my friend.  The
> link http://imgur.com/a/paR17 has three screenshots that show what I'm
> dealing with. (I used a "paintbrush" to obfuscate some information in the
> window not needed for this discussion.)
>
> Program CA8554R displays the screen shown in the first screenshot.  When
> the cursor is in the "sub-org ID" field and the user presses F4, the
> program calls service program CA9801R, which opens its own display file and
> displays a window, as shown in the second screenshot or the third
> screenshot, depending on unknown circumstances.  It appears to be random.
> I thought I found a pattern to replicate when the window appears as it
> should and when it doesn't, but apparently not.
>
> I'm not really sure what I can share that is applicable.  When I first
> tested, the windows would completely clear the main screen.  That was
> resolved by defining the OVERLAY keyword in each of the window control
> records and adding a dummy record to the service program's display file:
>    A     R ZZZDUMMY         KEEP ASSUME
>    A                    2  1' '
>
> According to
> https://as400tips.wordpress.com/2015/10/14/external-pop-
> up-window-overlay-solution/,
> where I got that information from, the program does not need to write the
> "dummy" record, it just needs to be in the display file.
>
> Any ideas on what I'm missing here?
>
> - Dan
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