Re: Looking for Skeleton RPG program

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I dropped the set-to field.  The records the user wants are not 
necessarily contiguous.   If they're looking for "Smith"  they most 
likely want "A. Smith", "Smith & Sons", and "Theodore Smithson".  The 
wildcard filter resolves that issue as well as case sensitivity.

Additionally, if the subfile goes above some reasonable limit, say 350 
records, I ask that they refine their search.  That makes load-all 
subfiles the standard and adds full meaning to the scroll bar signals.

It also removes dozens of lines of code related to paging.  A typical 
view-only subfile program, with filters,  is usually less than 150 
lines. A view-only subfile, like a dropdown box, is under 80 lines. US 
Presidents <http://tinyurl.com/y86kuqsh> is a non-filter demo of a 
drop-down box that checks screen size so it fits both *DS3 and *DS4 and 
still is only 120 lines.


On 1/8/2018 2:58 PM, dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>          I usually provide both a skip-to field for positioning and filter
> fields to reduce output -- with no more than 10 pages allowed for
> page-at-a-time scrolling before they get a message that they must
> reposition to get more data.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Dave Clark