RE: Display File Ovelaping Fields

["Jonathan Mason" <jonathan.mason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ideally yes to avoid confusion.  If it's coded without the N25 and N26 then
the overlapping field (indicator 25) would be ignored.


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: 31 August 2006 01:01
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Display File Ovelaping Fields

Would it work better if he also used the N indicator?
   A   26N25
   A   25N26

I don't know exactly why I am saying this, except for a nagging from another
life.


Jonathan Mason wrote:
> Hi Mike
>
> The coding you have should work although I would personally take the
> conditioning off the COLOR(WHT) as it's implied by the condition on the
> "field".
>
> Are you coding a straight forward display file format or are you coding a
> subfile record format.  You cannot condition fields on a subfile record,
but
> you can on subfile controls and ordinary display formats.
>
> However, the way I would do this would be to code an output field on the
> display and store the texts in a message file.  In the program I would do
a
> RTVMSG to bring in the text and update the output field accordingly.
>
> Hope it helps
>
> Jonathan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Mike
> Sent: 30 August 2006 22:53
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Display File Ovelaping Fields
>
> I am designing a screen and based on a selection a couple different fields
> will appear. However, I want to use the space for both sets of fields. It
> has been so long I don't remember how to do it. I have tried to place an
> indicator on the field and set non-display I still get overlap errors.
Here
> is a couple sample fields.
>
>      A  26                              5  2'Employee Information:'
>      A  26                                  COLOR(WHT)
>      A  25                              5  2'Complainant Info:'
>      A  25                                  COLOR(WHT)
>
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