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On Thu, 6 May 2004 Chris_Bougher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Is there a way to make part of a field on a screen input capable and the
> other part protected?
>
> I have a subfile program that I want to interleave different record
> formats. I can do this easily by defining the subfile as having a single
> long record and placing the data there broken up into the parts. Now I need
> to make some of the data fields input capable.

AFAIK no, this is not possible.  We needed to do the exact same thing.
The solution we came up with was to create a "field mask" that when
combined with the subfile line would tell us which parts were supposed to
be input capable.  We then saved only those parts that the mask exposed.

James Rich

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