RE: Display file help text without hitting F1/HELP?

Nope.

I'm pretty sure you SOL, unless you feel like proving the axiom that anything 
is possible with enough time and/or money.  You could after all pay IBM for a 
TOOLTIP keyword for DDS.

Basic problem is that there is no intercalation between a 5250 terminal and the 
host prior to ENTER or a CA/CF key being pressed.

If you want to offer such a feature, move the screen to the web or to a thick 
client.  Actually, the you have the same problem at with a web screen.  There's 
no interaction between the web server and the browser till "enter" is press or 
a URL is clicked.  However, at least you can use client side scripting to 
handle it on the browser.


HTH,

Charles Wilt
--
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

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> Subject: Display file help text without hitting F1/HELP?
> 
> 
> I was wondering if this would be possible...
> 
> I would like to show a line of help text depending on which field the
> cursor is located on the screen (analogous to a "tool tip" in Windows
> world).  All you simply do is press TAB to move from field to 
> field and the
> help text changes automatically.  I'm thinking I'd have to use UDDS or
> something in the display file and read/write directly against the
> workstation--something which I'm not familar at all with.  Is 
> there any
> simple way to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben Pforsich
> Programmer Analyst
> Bob Evans Farms, Inc.
> I/S Department
> Columbus, Ohio
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