Browse that scrolls sideways...Yay!!!

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:22:17AM -0500, John Esak wrote:
> Hey, thanks Jay. I am a "happening" kind of guy. :-)  It's been my curse,
> what can I say? :-)
> 
> Funny, I got about 10 other responses, all very positive and very nice,
> saying thanks for the code. Don't know why they all went to me privately.
> but still I'll use this note of yours acknowledge all of those, too. Great,
> glad it helped... more to come (I guess). :-)
> 
> John
> 
> P.S. JP mentioned that the "prompt" could be better placed in that code.  He
> is most probably right. Should be placed just before going back to the
> "browse" line.  Thanks.  And tony suggest that he is using the + and - keys
> for moving the browse views. Good idea. Very intuitive.

I was going to suggest two things, actually, both of which complicate
things a touch.

The keys were one of them, and the other one was allowing scrolling a
field at a time (which really amounts to overlapping the layouts, but
I suppose you could assemble the formats in real time), and tagging the
ends of the label line with < or >, depending on which way you could
scroll.

I rarely come up with a scroll where I need more fields than will fit,
but if you have one, this code is Damn Nifty.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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