Re: Position Cursor on a Display File

["Steven S. Brault" <stevenbrault@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rick,

This is not Joe....

However, I would be interested in seeing your QdfRtvFd wrapper if you do not
mind. It will be helpful in the project I am currently working on.

Thanks

Steve Brault
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick DuVall" <R_C_DuVall@daaokc.com>
To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 12:59 PM
Subject: RE: Position Cursor on a Display File


> Hi Joe,
>
> Faced with this same problem I wrote a wrapper to QdfRtvFd which is
> extremely complicated but does have the feature of getting the field names
> and row column info by format from the object itself.  You could of course
> get the information from the dds source, but if you change the source
> without immediately promoting the change the info will be wrong.
>
> If you are interested in the wrapper let me know.
>
> Regards
> Rick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]On
> Behalf Of Joe Giusto II (E-mail)
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 9:29 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange. com (E-mail)
> Subject: Position Cursor on a Display File
>
>
> I recently learned about positioning the cursor in a display file by using
> the CSRLOC keyword and setting the field values to the desired line and
> column before writing the display.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to get these values based on field name in the
> display file so that I will not have to hard code the row and column in my
> program?  (outside of storing the value in a hidden field in the display
> file as I have already been shown).
>
> The purpose being to allow the fields to be moved around on the display
file
> without having to change the hard coded values for positioning the cursor.
>
> TIA
>
> Joe Giusto II
> Programmer/Analyst
> Ritz Camera
> Beltsville, MD
> 301-419-3209 x347
> 410-813-2812 x347
>
>
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