Form help

[kristolcrawley]

This is really irking me. I have a form that says:

a = formonly.gv_status TYPE CHAR, UPSHIFT, REVERSE,
COMMENTS = "(A)ctive,(H)ome Office,(N)on Registered,(P)ending,(T)ermed,(AH)Acti
ve/HO";

The comment line is too long for the form so it's being chopped. Can't I wrap the text to a new line? There's too much text to fit on one line, if I try I get a run time error.

 

[olded]

Kristol:

Informix has a wordwrap keyword. This example should show how to use it. I'm wrapping two lines.

Regards,

Ed
DATABASE testdb

SCREEN
{

[A3 ]
[A3 ]

}

TABLES
med

ATTRIBUTES
A3 = med.help_txt, wordwrap,
comments = "Enter the Help Text, ESC to accept, DEL to interrupt";

INSTRUCTIONS
screen record s_meded2 (med.help_txt)

delimiters " "

 

[vpshriyan]

Hi,

4GL does not let us to split the COMMENTS line. That means maximum 79 characters can be accomodated in forms associated with a window having border attribute.

Your comments contents length works out 72 characters, hence it should fit in one line itself. You may have to draw a bigger window or make sure that your form contents should touch 72-78th character at the extreme right side of the form, to negate the chopping.

Regards,
Shriyan

 

[dodge20]

You can make field in the table big, but you have to seperate the form into sections. Here is an example of the form that I use.

comments:
[f017 ]
[f018 ]
[f019 ]

attributes

f017 = act.salescomm[1,78];
f018 = act.salescomm[79,156];
f019 = act.salescomm[157,234];

Dodge20

 

[olded]

Kristol:

I misread the question. Sorry if I mislead you.

Regards,


Ed

 

[kristolcrawley]

Thanks for all your help!!

Olded that did work actually. You can wordwrap but it ignores the next line unless you define the form as comment line -1. When I did that it started showing the 2 lines.

The window size it's at has to stay at that size so I really needed to split the lines up.

 

[qtie]

Thanks for the help. That's semilar to what I'm doing, but not quite.
My form has about 5 lines that I declared as WORDWRAP. But the text to be accepted are usually longer than 5 lines. I was just looking for a way to scroll that section to allow the user type in as much text as they want.

thx.
Quinn