RE: How to set the cursor position

["Carel Teijgeler" <coteijgeler@xxxxxxxxx>]

David,

Be awarw, that with RTNCSRLOC(*WINDOW &LINE &COLUMN) the&COLUMN returns the
position of the cursor within  the field, which may not be the position of
the cursor on the screen.

And IIRC RTNCSRLOC returned the name of the active recordformat, the name
of the field in which the was and the position within that field. So &LINE
will cause an error when used with CSRLOC, which requires 2 numeric
programme variables.

RTNCSRLOC is returned/updated after pressing Enter or a function key,
CRSLOC is set before the EXFMT.

With regards,
Carel Teijgeler

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On 27-11-2009 at 10:29 David FOXWELL wrote:

> Changed the title because of my spelling mistake.
>
> Thanks, I learnt a new keyword.
>
> But it seems to be a little simpler : 
> I already had this :
> A                                      RTNCSRLOC(*WINDOW &LINE &COLUMN)
>
> This is to tell the RPG pgm where the cursor is when the user hits the
function key.
> So I added this :
> A                                      CSRLOC(&LINE &COLUMN)
>
> (without the indicator, same field names) to set the position of the
cursor before displaying the screen.
> Then in the rpg :
>
> Line=7;
> Column=8;
> Exfmt screen;