Fwd: Re: Maintaining "Notes" in an application

Greetings, and thanks so far . .  This message is a compilation response to 
several posts.

I was actually hoping that someone would tell me that CGIDEV2 or Cozzi's tools 
or Brad's tools have some functions to do the word wrap/parsing for me!


"Walden H. Leverich III" <WaldenL=2B5fPzThJ4VnIoaKPxTklg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote in message 
news:<036AA74C3CCBD243BB9D2754AC6F939914FDB2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>...
> I'd go with the textbox approach. We've done it in several different cases
> and in each we've been able to make the decision that the green-screen notes
> were "Secondary" to the browser based ones and as such we've avoided the
> need to word-wrap. We figure that the humans are smart enough to word wrap
> on their own. However, word wrapping isn't all that hard.
> 

If I understand properly, the idea here is to set the text box size the same 
width as the record length and let the users manage it.  This may actually be 
the first cut solution. 

"Rick Rauterkus" <ricker=dEhpIGnVy/33oGB3hsPCZA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in 
message news:<1711576556.20030521075006@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>...

            <<snip>>
> 
> Is this what you are looking for:
> 
> DDS Reference: Display Files
> 
> BLKFOLD (Blank Fold) keyword for display files
> 
> Use this field-level keyword for named, output-only fields (but not
> message or program-to-system fields) that are defined so that they
> overflow onto subsequent display lines. The keyword causes folding to
> occur at a blank in the data rather than at the end of the display
> line. It is used to make long text fields easier to read. The default
> is for the data to be folded at the end of the physical line.
> 

I am trying to avoid modifying the database or the existing green screen 
application.  This is a great idea for any new files/applications however.  It 
appears that it makes a green screen output field appear like a text box.


>>> <Mike_Shumaker/SCI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 05/20/03 12:11PM >>>

> (a) Link your green screen application to an internet view and then
> everybody is looking/maintaining it with a web look and feel.  Kind of
> inconsistent, but it works.

> (b) Use WRDWRAP and CNTFLD instead of subfile processing.  There are some
> limitations with this method, but it works good if your "notes" can all fit
> on one screen.

Same comments as to Rick - I am trying to avoid changing the existing program 
and the database.

Thanks again to all.


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