wordwrap

[bobsimcoe at adelphia.net]

Hi

Just agreed with my boss to develope a filepro program for our office furniture business. It will include the accounting and office furniture sales functions. I'm currently the accountant for this company, but I've been working with filepro (profile) since the early eighties.

Currently, on another job, I work with filepro 5.0, Windows Server 2003 and Terminal Services. Here, at the furniture company, we plan to purchase fp5.6 with SQL and ODBC, I'm testing the evaluation copy of these now, and I'm very excited.
At this time we use a character based application based in UniData. It does have a nice, very functional interface called wIntegrate, but the sales people and others here, never use any of the functions, except for printing the screen occasionally.

I know I can make filepro do almost everything I need to, but I know I'll have questions on the BEST WAY to do things. 

My past applications all work the same, whether I'm UIAing a customer, applying cash to accounts receivable,  or preparing a sales quote, I'm always on a standing file ( I think that the term I've seen used here ), in -xa.

My question to the list is: When preparing a sales order / quote, sometimes when manually adding the item description, it can be many lines. I plan to allow at least 20 description lines per line item, 40 characters wide ( 1 detail record ). Six of those lines would be visable on the input screen, and appear to scroll up and down as needed, with some sort of word wrap working on the description data entry.

The wordwrap is my problem.

Would the new WORDWRAP & @WORDWRAP commands develope a better wordwrap ?

Could the BLOB command be used with NotePad ?
 (I have no clue how BLOB words, or what it does)

Does anyone have a slick wordwrap routine for sale ?


Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Bob Simcoe
MidCity Office Furniture
Buffalo, NY