Re: Yellow in DSPF

[Michael D Soucy <mikesoucy1262@xxxxxxxx>]

The reason why yellow has column separators is because it goes all the
way back to the days prior to DDS and the world of RPG II.  Prior to DDS
IBM came up with a scheme in that colors were archived by a combination
of field attributes like, to get RED you set the display attribute to
blink.  To get white you set it to high intensity, etc.  Some of the
colors include column separators.  Yellow is only one of them.  There are
others like turquoise I believe.  When IBM came out with DDS they kept
the same scheme for compatibility I guess.

Michael Soucy
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
Community Health and Counseling Services.


On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 16:14:09 -0500 "Rubino, Jim" <Jim.Rubino@xxxxxxxx>
writes:
> Yellow has separator in it.  See the attached DOC showing the 
> different
> attributes.
> 
>     Jim Rubino 
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> Subject: Yellow in DSPF
> 
> 
> Another one of those "I'm a little rusty at this" questions.  I'm 
> creating a
> display file and I'm conditioning the color of fields on certain 
> indicators,
> which are set on or off based on values.  I'm attempting to use 
> green if
> everything is good, yellow if there's a warning, red if there's a 
> problem.
> No trouble with red and green but if I try to use yellow on any 
> field I
> always get column separators.  Is this one of those quirky things 
> about DDS
> or am I doing something wrong?  Here's what I have under the field:
> 
>     EDTCDE(1)
>     COLOR(YLW)
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