Scrolling fields (was: RE: Desperate plea to FP Tech...)

[Lerebours, Jose]

Ken wondered:
> 
> Quoting Lerebours, Jose (Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:04:11 -0600):
> 
> > Bill posted:
> [...]
> > > The main reason I've never implemented scrolling fields in my
> > > accounting system's window handling routines is that I prefer
> [...]
> > Bill, you mean to say you know how to do this?  Could you please
> > share this technique with us ???
> >
> > I have thought about it but it required so much programming work
> > that I figured the work load did not justify the benefit.
> >
> > Using show+inkey throughout the screen is one way I figured might
> > be possible ... but the inkey itself is so resource hungry that
> > the application would feel overly bloated.
> 
> Is there a reason you would use INKEY rather than WAITKEY?
> 

A mind set I think?  Perhaps I looked at it from the same angle
so long that I simply forgot to walk around it and look at it from
other perspectives  8-)

But you are right, waitkey would be a preferred command.


Jose Lerebours