Re: Handling zeroes typed by user on DDS screen

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Would the VALUES() keyword be useful?


 VALUES (Values) keyword for display files

Use this field-level keyword to specify a list of values that are valid 
for the user to type into the field.

(Handling negative numbers might be tricky?)



On 4/24/2020 9:47 AM, Filip Drzewiecki via RPG400-L wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to have decimal field on dds screen which shows nothing(blanks) on it but if user type 0(zero), it will stay there after pressing enter. With EDTCDE(4), field is empty because of zero supression but if I will type 0 there, it will disappear after pressing enter and I would like it to stay if user typed it there.
> It is not possible to achieve that result with any of Edit Codes or Edit Words. Unfortunately, option indicator can't be used on both EDTCDE and EDTWRD.
>
> I wanted to avoid making this field character and later validation char to valid decimal format.
>
> Thing is I have few fields (different length and decimal places) and I want them to be blank and if user type 0, this field will be set to 0 but if user leave it blank, it will be ignored.
>
> Filip Drzewiecki
> RPG Developer