RE: Best practice for displaying an empty subfile

I know this thread is about a month old, but I just had the opportunity to
try this out and it didn't work for me. I'm not sure exactly what I am
doing wrong.

SFLDSP = *off when I write the NRCDFMT. I used the exact DDS that you
provided.

if mrrrn <> 0;
saverrn = mrrrn;
sfldsp = *on;
else;
write(E) NRCDFMT1;
endif;

A R NRCDFMT1
A OVERLAY
A 6 19'NO RECORDS FOUND'
A DSPATR(HI)

If you'd like to see anything else, just let me know. The program loads
up just fine w/o error and there are no subfile records to be written. I
debug the code and it does the Write(E) NRCDFMT1; I tried it w/o the (e)
and it doesn't error out, it just doesn't show up on the screen.


Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I
570-546-4777



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Have you tried writing a blank record to the subfile?

You can also write a "No Records Found" record format overtop the
subfile display area. Here's a broad example.

Display file record format NRCDFMT overlays the screen area where
subfile records would be displayed.

A R NRCDFMT
A OVERLAY
A 15 19'No Records Found'
A DSPATR(HI)

Code snippet...

// rrnInSfl is incremented each time a record is written to the subfile

D rrnInSFL S 4S 0 like(SFRRN)

/free
.
.
.
if (rrnInSFL <= 0); // No entires to display
write(E) NRCDFMT; // No entries found record
endif;

write(E) FUNCTNKEY; // Function keys record

write(E) ERRMSGSFLC; // Put messages to the screen

exfmt SUBFILECTL; // Subfile control record
.
.
.
/end-free

Writing the NRCDFMT assumes the SFLDSP keyword is not active.

Hope this helps

Gary Monnier

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Helgren
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 2:06 PM
To: RPG Midrange Discussion
Subject: Best practice for displaying an empty subfile

I have an program that displays records in a subfile and it works great,

until there are no records to display. In that case it crashes with a
predictable RNQ1255. I set off the subfile display indicator before I
EXFMT when I have no records to display so I am wondering if there is
other logic I need to add so I can at least display the empty subfile
screen.

Thanks