Re: Subfile "move to top" function

A couple of thoughts:

- MOUBTN() is a useful keyword.

- "SFLSCROLL (Subfile Scroll) keyword for display files

You use this field-level keyword in the subfile-control record format to return the relative record number of the subfile record that is at the top of the subfile when control is given back to your program."

Is that of any use in the process you desire, Mark?

On 2/13/2011 4:06 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:

On 2/13/2011 3:49 PM, M. Lazarus wrote:

Joe,

I usually want to keep the same paging, unless the user
specifically requests it. Otherwise it can be disconcerting when
every action shifts the target line to the top of the page. I guess
I'll have to play with the *TOP version and see if it behaves acceptably.

-mark

Okay, good luck. I understand your wanting to keep the paging
normalized I'm still a bit confused, though. If the user switches the
top, won't that become the "new normal"? At that point, if you then go
back to the old style SFLRCDNBR, you'll shift the perceived top, won't
you? It seems to me that if you are going to allow the user to change
the base for the top, then you'll have to basically replicate the
SFLRCDNBR logic yourself. Find out which record number of "top" +
"multiple of page size" is less than the record you wish to display, and
then put that in SFLRCDNBR. Then position the cursor using either a
conditioned DSPATR(PC) or by absolute cursor positioning.

Joe