Browse Lookup

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Rodgers Hemer (Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:42:02 -0700):

>
> On Jul 28, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>
>> Quoting Rodgers Hemer (Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:19:37 -0700):
>>
>>> SCO 6.0    filePro 5.0.14
>>>
>>> I am using a browse lookup in a header file to select records in a
>>> detail file for editing.  Thirteen records appear on the browse screen
>>> but the total records in the lookup could be several hundred.
>>> Subsequent to saving the detail record, @BR is used to calculate the
>>> number of pushkeys to move the selection highlight to the next record
>>> in the browse window.  This works well until the user goes beyond the
>>> thirteenth record as @BR will not go beyond the maximum lines in the
>>> window.  So the highlighted record is a function of 13 and is within
>>> the first 13 records in the browse.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a suggestion on how to force the cursor highlight
>>> beyond the first 13 records?
>>
>> Sounds like a job for "show=pkeep".
>>
> Ken:
>
> I am using show=pkeep.  The applicable parts of the lookup statement are:
>
>      lookup ipd = pslipd@  k=1  i=A  -npxm  b="(brw=17,4,-1 show=pkeep
> fill=asc,top)"

Then, unless you are doing something to take the browse window down, the
cursor would remain where the user left it, and there's no need to do a
PUSHKEY to move the cursor back to the same spot.

If you need to take the window down for some reason (which would negate
the functionality of the pkeep), then you could add an additional key to
the index to make each record unique, and then lookup to that unique key.

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