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

Would this work?  map your tab key to be an enter key, and test for the tab
key.  If its the tab key do your stuff and return to where you were?  Do not
process the rest of the cycle. 
 
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Booth Martin
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From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Date: 06/16/05 13:10:25
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Display file help text without hitting F1/HELP?
 
Shannon,
 
Thanks for this suggestion.  It looked just like the simple solution I was
looking for.  I tried doing this method, but unfortunately I still couldn't
get past the fact that the TAB key or cursor keys will not trigger the
workstation to release control back to the program.  I've also tried the
data queue method and waiting until input arrives,  but it also appears to
only respond to the Enter key or a function key (same as the READ).  If
only I could get the CSRLOC returned without having to a READ somehow, then
I think I could do it.
 
Ben Pforsich
Programmer Analyst
Bob Evans Farms, Inc.
I/S Department
Columbus, Ohio
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How about using the Invite keyword on your DDS along with the CSRLOC
keyword
and a READ and a WRITE to the display format (rather than EXFMT) so that
your program can continuously poll the keyboard to see when the user does
something.  You can then use CSRLOC to tell where the cursor is, and, if
it's within some predefined range (where your fields are), you send a
message to a message subfile on the display file displaying the help text
for that field?
 
 
 
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Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 7:38 AM
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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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