Re: subfiles in screen designer

On 3/7/2012 10:56 AM, Paul Bailey wrote:

Hi,

I didn't understand the other answers to your question, so perhaps I have misunderstood your question, but on the RDP screen designer there is a groups of small icons just below the list of records. The one on the left is named "Draw records transparent". The only effect this has had on my screen is to show the subfile records or subfile control in a "greyed out" format while I am viewing the other type. This allows me to see the column headings while dealing with subfile records, and vice versa.

This implies that you're designing screens rather than records, which is an intuitive leap that us green screen folks don't always make, since there is no equivalent function in SDA. A screen in RDP is a group of related records (such as the subfile, subfile control and a footer record where I stick my command keys). When you're editing the screen with those three, and if you have the Draw records transparent tool set, then you do indeed see the other records (I wish the name for that was "Show other records", but since I haven't made an RFE for it, I guess I don't wish it that much <smile>).

The nice thing is that you can then just click on the record names to switch between the various records. The active record will be colored, the others will be grayed. It makes it very easy to make changes in the subfile and then make the corresponding change (such as moving the heading) in the subfile control, or vice versa.

Joe