RE: Soft-Coding report titles & column titles

The nice thing about message files is the way overrides work. If you
override msgfA with msgfB, then if the msgid the program is looking for
isn't in msgfB then it will still take if from msgfA. This means that
msgfB only has to have the msgids that actually differ from those in
msgfA. If you do this with file overrides, then the overriding file has
to include all the records in the overridden file otherwise the program
will not be able to find them.

Trevor Briggs
Analyst/Programmer
Lincare, Inc.
(727) 431-1246
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Schutte
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 8:15 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: Soft-Coding report titles & column titles

If you need to soft code the column headings, then I'd use a table.

File Layout
Report Pgm/Printer file char(10)
Column # Dec(3,0)
Text Char(30)




On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 2:26 AM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

My memory is that making the second and subsequent message files was
where I most often confused myself. Keeping them synched sounds

simple

but I was able to confuse myself with some regularity.


On 8/22/2013 11:44 PM, Roger Harman wrote:

Message files are what I was planning to use - at least for report

headings.

I've used them in the past for other things and, years ago, even

replicated

the concept to PC DOS apps I was building - used them for screen

prompts

and

reports.

Column titles is where I'm having a problem wrapping my mind around

it.

BUT.... (light bulb moment!).... Maybe just one big string for the

full

width of column titles. I was stuck on individuals but just

retrieving

line

1,2,3 as needed is probably very doable.

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