Sideways Scrolling a Browse

[Jeff Harrison]

John, your sideways scroll is very cool!  I did
something similar called "autobrowse" a couple of
years ago.  I don't mean to steal your thunder -
Your's is very elegant and does some things that mine
does not.  Mine does some things that yours does not
too through.

Autobrowse is a callable table - all you do is set a
few of globally defined variables like below, and then
you call it and it will browse the specified filepro
file starting with the field number specified in
jhbstart.  

For example:

::jhbqual="qual":
::jhbfile="filename"; jhbidx="A"; jhbkey=" ";
jhbstart="1"; call "jhlib/autobrowse":

When you press the left and right arrow keys
autobrowse allows will scroll by 1 field worth to the
left or right.  Internally it uses the pushkey command
to fake the pkeep functionality.  A disadvantage of
autobrowse is that the browse format is restricted to
contiguous fields.

It is about 100 lines of code, so I won't post it
here, but I would be happy to forward it to anyone
that would like a copy.  Just email me privately.  If
you already own JHImport or JHExport the chances are
good that you have it already as "jhlib/autobrowse". 
Early versions of JHImport and JHExport did not have
this ability, so any owners out there that would like
to receive the latest version, please let me know.

Thanks.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The easiest and
fastest way to generate code for filePro exports and
imports.



		
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