Re: pausing a subfile

[mlazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Booth,

 Is this for an "output only" application?  Maybe the old SLN technique 
would work better, instead of a subfile.

 -mark

On 7/12/2019 10:05 PM, Don Brown wrote:
> The method to do this requires the record format(s) to have the INVITE
> keyword in effect.
>
> Then you need to either change or override the display file with the
> WAITRCD setting the required delay. Value is in seconds so you could set
> this to 1 if you really wanted to.
>
> In the program use the WRITE and READ instead of the EXFMT.
>
> Code the File information DS for the Display file and include the *STATUS
> option; Eg (Sorry old program and not free format)
>
> F                                     INFDS(INFDSA)
>
> Workstation file information DS
>
> D INFDSA          DS
> D  DSPFIA           *FILE
> D  STSFIA           *STATUS
>
> When you issue the READ include an error indicator which will be set on if
> the WAITRCD time expires, test the STSFIA for a value of 01331 to confirm
> this is a time-out and then modify the subfile and re-display it.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Don Brown
>
>
>
>
> From:   "Jon Paris"<jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:     "RPG programming on IBM i"<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   12/07/2019 10:46 PM
> Subject:        Re: pausing a subfile
> Sent by:        "RPG400-L"<rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>
> If you want that degree of sophistication in a green screen interface then
> you need to use something like the DSM APIs so that you control the
> display rather than Workstation Data Management controlling when the data
> is sent to the device.
>
> As has been noted a regular subfile is only updated when the control
> record is displayed.
>
> Frankly Booth you are trying to do something that 5250 terminals were
> never really designed to do.
>
>
> Jon Paris
>
> www.partner400.com
> www.SystemiDeveloper.com
>
>    
> > On Jul 11, 2019, at 10:01 PM, Booth Martin<booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >
> > This seemed simple enough but it has me stumped.
> >
> > I am adding lines to a subfile.  I want the user to see each line as it
> >      
> is added, using sleep() instead of exfmt.  (Thank you for the links on
> that earlier.  Works great.)
>    
> > Writing the new subfile record and then writing the control record and
> >      
> sleep(1) seemed like the right choice.  It apparently isn't. Any ideas?
>