RE: **SPAM** RE: My turn...LOL

Cool I'll take a look at it...tomorrow lol 


Thanks,
Tommy Holden


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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tyler, Matt
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 2:43 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: **SPAM** RE: My turn...LOL

Tommy,

<snip>
        I wonder what the first three positions of .Data are for.  I
converted the hex of "11090E" (in one of my tests) to decimal and its
1,116,430.  A bit too large to mean the size of the buffer I'm
gathering.
</snip>

        I was not reading all of your code properly.  Byte 2 is row
(x'09'=09) and byte 3 is column (x'0E'=14), the placement of the field
on the screen.  I just had not noticed where you extract those values
right after the read.

        Anyway, speaking of the read, it's my suggestion that you invest
some time into "Retrieve Field Information (QsnRtvFldInf)".  Looking it
over, it looks like it will give you the returned data length you need
to know.

Here is code I added to get this API to return the field information. 

DSMAPI:
...


      *-------------------------------------------------------------
      * QsnRtvDtaLen(): Get length of input data in input buffer
      *-------------------------------------------------------------
     D RTVFLDINF       PR            10I 0 EXTPROC('QsnRtvFldInf')
     D  INPBUFHANDLE                 10I 0
     D  FIELD_ID                     10I 0 CONST
     D  FIELD_INF                 32767A   OPTIONS(*VARSIZE)
     D  INF_DATALEN                  10I 0 CONST
     D  ENV                          10I 0 OPTIONS(*OMIT: *NOPASS) CONST
     D  ERRORCODE                 32767A   OPTIONS(*OMIT: *NOPASS:
*VARSIZE)
...

     DQSNFLDINF        DS
      * Data structure for QsnRtvFldInf API.
     D  QSNFIRET                     10I 0
     D  QSNFIAVL                     10I 0
     D  QSNFITYPE                     1A
     D  QSNFIROW                     10I 0
     D  QSNFICOL                     10I 0
// returns the number bytes returned in the field
     D  QSNFIFDTAL                   10I 0  
     D  QSNFIR1                      11A
     D  QSNFIDTA                       *

KRCTNLDSM:
...
     D FLDINF          DS                  LIKEDS(QSNFLDINF) //
... 
         // Retreive Data
        IF NOT PROTECTALL;
 
READMDT(QSN_CC1_NULL:QSN_CC1_NULL:MAXFIELDS:INBUFFER:CMDBUFFER:0
                    :*OMIT);
           INPUTPOINTER=RETRIEVEDATA(INBUFFER:*OMIT:*OMIT);
           INPUTLENGTH=RETRIEVEDTALEN(INBUFFER:*OMIT:*OMIT)
                      - %SIZE(INPUTDATA.ROW)
                      - %SIZE(INPUTDATA.COL)
                      - 1;
           IF INPUTDATA.AID = QSN_F3 OR INPUTDATA.AID = QSN_F12;
             RETURN *ON;
           ENDIF;
           RC = RTVFLDINF(INBUFFER:1:FLDINF:%LEN(FLDINF):0:*OMIT);



Thank you,
Matt Tyler
WinCo Foods, LLC