Re: Trying to position cursor on complicated screen

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The issue I have had with this scenario is that only one format can be 
active at a time.  Last format written rules the roost. Having 
navigation arrows so you can round-robin through the formats works but 
if you do it people will point at you in the lunch room.

The only reasonable solution I ever found was to write one format that 
reaches the screen; it would be basically a 24x80 array.  You write your 
various formats to the array as 80-char lines and read from the array.  
It sounds like a lot of work but your fields are all read-only, so it'll 
work.

Of course, a master screen with all the text, and a data structure of 
all the output fields would give you one format and would work, too?

This sounds like extra work but in the end I found it also solved a 
whole host of small problems for me.


On 5/8/2019 12:39 PM, smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I have a very complicated screen and I am having problems positioning the
> cursor.  There are no modifiable fields.  It is display only and function
> keys allow for editing via a different screen