RE: Move subfile left and right?

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jaco Jonker wrote:

>I have a subfile with a selection field, 
>6 signed numeric fields(11,2), as well
>as a description field (30 char, and 
>*all* 30 characters are being used.
>
>My problem is to fit the whole record 
>on one line of a 80 column screen. (132
>width is next to impossible to read on CA, 
>and the users *insist* that all the fields 
>be on 1 line). 
>
>Is there short way to define the fields 
>beyond 80 char, and let the subfile
>behave like query or dspsplf?

Build a hidden field that contains the complete record you wish to display.
When the user chooses "scroll right", substring out the 80 bytes you need
from the hidden field and move that to the display portion.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"We are what we repeatedly do.
 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle


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