Re: Subfile question

["Douglas W. Palme" <dpalme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

thanks Steve that makes sense now, but I guess for me it looks confusing 
with the N in there.....I suppose the only difference with the way I was 
originally showed is you burn an additional indicator

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:19:02 -0600, Steve Landess wrote
> > 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
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