RE: Position Cursor on a Display File

I poked around in the Docs for a couple of hours and came up with nothing.
I too thought I saw it somewhere in a book, but I must have been confusing
it with the return cursor location that will pass the field name back to the
program.  One would think that if the field name can be passed back, that
the system would be smart enough to accept the field name for positioning
the cursor.  But alas... 
 
I am not objectionable to using the wrapper, I had even thought of writing
something myself and then passing it on.  Since it is already written, I am
going to as for it and then put it in my bag of tricks.
 
 
 
Joe Giusto II
Programmer/Analyst
Ritz Camera
Beltsville, MD
301-419-3209 x347
410-813-2812 x347
 
-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Bale, Dan
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 12:13 PM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Position Cursor on a Display File
 
Gee, Joe, I thought this was an easy one.  I'm almost certain I did exactly
this at another site a few years ago, but darned if I can find it in the
documentation anywhere, either in the RPG manuals or the DDS manual (V4R4
flavor).
I'm think it involves using a Program-to-System field, but the docs show no
such example.  I also looked at OVRATR, but that too, was inconclusive.
The technique we used may have been using the QdfRtvFd api that Rick refers
to, but I don't remember having to go to that extreme.
Dan Bale 
IT - AS/400 
Handleman Company 
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952 
D.Bale@Handleman.com 
  Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur. 
  (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.) 
 

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