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

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2006, Lerebours, Jose wrote:
>Bill posted:
>
>> >John mentioned scrolling fields.  Not having them is, I think, one of
>> >the key reasons why more screen space is needed.  For example, if I
>> >simply want to add an e-mail-contact field to a customer 
>> screen I have
>> >to take up quite a bit of screen space to accommodate how 
>> long an e-mail
>> >address MIGHT be even though most of them don't even come close.  But
>> >most people don't need to see the whole e-mail address and even those
>> >that do rarely have to.
>> 
>> The main reason I've never implemented scrolling fields in my
>> accounting system's window handling routines is that I prefer
>> to have the cursor jump to the next field when the last character
>> of the previous field is entered.  This is particularly true
>> where one might have a number of 1-character yes/no fields in
>> which case scrolling fields would double the number of keystrokes.
>> 
>
>Bill, you mean to say you know how to do this?  Could you please
>share this technique with us ???  

I didn't say I knew how to do it with FilePro.

I first did it when I wrote screen handling routines for the Unify RDBMS 21
years ago, and that is written in C.  Basically I wrote replacements for
Unify's screen handling subroutines, and link that library before the Unify
libraries.

Now I'm doing it using the curses modules of python with a postgresql back
end database.

Bill
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