Re: Subfile question

["Steve Landess" <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Douglas W. Palme wrote:
> I decided I needed some text help on subfiles so I ordered the
> book "Essentials of subfile Programming and advanced topics in RPG IV"
> One question I have is a comment the author made:
> The SFLCLR must have the opposite indicator value.....
> Is he talking about the opposite value of SFLDSP, SFLDSPCTL or both? I
> looked at a sample subfile a friend of mine sent me and he was using
> indicators 51 for the SFLDSP and SFLDSPCTL fields and 50 for SFLCLR....and
> it works...
>
> Can anyone explain what the author might have been talking about?
>
> Here is the example he gave:
>
> A     50                                     SFLDSP
> A     50                                     SFLDSPCTL
> A    N50                                     SFLCLR
>

Douglas -

What the author really should have said is that these subfile operations
are mutually exclusive, and you can use a single indicator to condition
them,
since you cannot simultaneously _clear_ a subfile that you are going to
display.

Steve