Re: Enter/edit a variable length field which may exceed screen size

[Martin Rowe <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 20 March 2001 15:23, rob@dekko.com wrote:
>
> We have an application in which you USED to place an option 8 in front
> of a record and it would call EDTDOC, or some conglomeration thereof,
> and bring up OV/400's word processor and let you type notes to your
> hearts content. Well, now I want to replace the WP with a variable
> length field.  The trick is that the field may be larger than the
> screen.  DDS is too primitive to support this.  One coworker suggested
> a subfile.  However the thought of removing 5 words from the middle of
> a line and having to copy/paste the remaining rows to shift the text
> rather disgusts me.  Just as vile as some of the steps I've gone
> through when modifying multi line comments in SEU. I am open to ideas.
>
> Is there something I am overlooking in DDS?

There's a WRDWRAP keyword, but I've never been able to make any sense of 
it.

Can't help with UIM (only used it for help panels) or DSM (never used it) 
but as you're open to ideas :-) you could try the script editor that 
comes with my DBG/400 tools. I wrote it (years ago) for our users to 
maintain their own help text. It has a crude (but effective) wordwrap 
that makes it easy to tidy up after adding/removing words or lines. You 
can work with a single document in edit or view mode, or all documents in 
a document set. We have moved some of our OV stuff onto it, with the 
remaining few in the pipeline (tweaked it to do basic mail merge).

There are more details (screenshots, etc) on the web site - just follow 
the links for DBG/400 and the documentation. If it gets close to what you 
want, just tweak the code to get the rest of what you require :-)

Regards, Martin
-- 
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miscellaneous database & spooled file management commands.
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