Browse lookup

[GCC Consulting]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of Brian K. White
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 9:26 PM
> To: filePro mailing list
> Subject: Re: Browse lookup
> 
> GCC Consulting wrote:
> > Had an odd thing occur today while testing a new program.
> >
> > While doing a browse lookup to a product master, I noted 
> that when I 
> > scrolled down the list of items, one of them had part of 
> the display 
> > in yellow.  When the highlight bat hit that item, the yellow area 
> > turned high intensity white (normal color is magenta).
> >
> > To see why this was happening, I checked the product master 
> for this 
> > item.  What I found was the in the description field, which is 
> > displayed in the browse, it contained ...L\I CD.  The color change 
> > occurred at the L\I.
> >
> > The other thing I found was that for other backslash 
> combinations the 
> > backslash was deleted from the display.
> > Tex\Trix
> > Tuf\Trix
> >
> > Have any of you seen this?
> 
> Not lately but it would fall under expected/defined behavior by me.
> 
> Similarly to the way I clean out quotes from fields the might 
> contain them during a export to csv, I would just make a 
> little one-line gosub and use it
> (sparingly) on any fields that might need to be cleaned on 
> the way to the display.
> 
> my csv export goes like this:
> 
> ...
> 7 If: 'company
> Then: n=12 ; gosub clean ; csv(4)=n
> ...
> 26 clean If: 
> '**************************************************************
> Then: n = xlate(n,chr("34"){chr("13"),"'") ; return
> 
> 
> That does two things at once, it changes " to ' and removes 
> any carriage returns
> 
> you would do something like, put n in the browse display 
> instead of your real field (say it was 12) and put a line 
> like this in browse processing:
> n = xlate(12,chr("92"),"/")
> 
> that would change the display from blah\blah to blah/blah
> 
> I would like to know if there was a reasonable for you to 
> display the real data myself. What if swapping \ for / isn't 
> acceptable?
> 
> I know there are ways to show and show popup and system 
> strings with backslashes but they all involve assembling the 
> string out of separate variables and literals right on the 
> action line so that the actual command ends up interpreting 
> harmless combinations of "\ " backslash-space, which ends up 
> leaving the backslash alone so it gets displayed. But then 
> the string also has  { aa  right after that, which closes up 
> the space so the resulting display or system command has what 
> you want but it's assembled _after_ the show or system 
> command has already made it's pass through looking for 
> backslash-codes.
> 
> I don't know if you can do a trick like that in a browse 
> display definition.
> If you did it into a variable and put the variable in the 
> display, you'd just wind up with the same result you have now 
> I think. But, worth a try.
> maybe assembling the string inside browse processing will 
> make the difference. In your case it's going to be a pain 
> though because first you have to use instr and mid to chop up 
> a single field into two fields so that you can then 
> re-assemble them with a space after the \ and a { after that.
> p=instr(12,chr("92"),"1")
> n=mid(12,"1",p) & " " { mid(12,p+"1",len(12)-p)
> 
> bahh, I can't believe putting this in browse processing and 
> putting n on the browse display would be any different than 
> just putting 12 on the browse display directly.
> 
> Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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I really can't change these descriptions as the are defined by the product.  

At present we do not export this file. When and if I need to export this files
description, I will have to remove the slashes and use a a space.

As of now, the slashes are only appear in 4 items.  

Richard