Browse Lookup - Messages

[Bruce Easton]

Bruce Easton wrote:
>
> (inline responses - Bruce Easton, STN, Inc.)
>
> Scott Walker wrote Thursday, June 05, 2008 8:26 PM:
> >
> > Doing a browse lookup from within processing, is there a way to turn off
> > the "Beginning of File" and "End of File" that are displayed.
>
> I don't know of any way to remove those message from appearing
> when they do.
>
> > Maybe I'm
> > missing something but it seems to me when you are controlling the browse
> > lookup from processing, these messages are ugly, and kind of meaningless
> > or confusing to the user.
>
> IMO, maybe a bit inflexible, being that you can't restate them or remove
> them,
> but rarely 'meaningless' and I doubt 'confusing' for most typical
> applications
> of the browse lookup.
>
> >
> > For example, when I am on the Order Header record, the user presses "I"
> > to inquire the Line Items.  A browse lookup is called that shows:
> >
> > LI#    Part#           Description       Qty Ordered
> >
> >
> > The five line items are displayed in the browse lookup window and at the
> > bottom left had corner of the browse lookup window is shown "End of
> > File".  What's that mean to the user?  Nothing.  If the user has the
> > first line item highlighted in the browse window and they press the up
> > arrow, "Beginning of File" is displayed in the upper left hand corner of
> > the browse window.  I can live with that one because at least it only
> > happens when the user does something stupid like pressing the up arrow
> > with the first the first entry already highlighted.
>
> Well, if there can be more than five records than are valid child records
> for your header, then I would think you would want the current
> behavior since need the scrolling to show more than five detail
> records in the window where you are only showing five at a time.
>
> If, as it appears here, based on the beginning of your paragraph ("The
> five"),
> your application dictates that there are always supposed to be a max of
> five records to show, then you could get around this in other ways - one
> of which is making a popup window that has a static five dummy field
> lines on it for the static five detail lines that you are showing in the
> browse.
>
> >
> > These messages mess up the aesthetics of the browse lookup window.  Is
> > there a way to turn them off.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Scott
> >

BUT, I do see that it would be helpful to both allow
removal and I would say the ability to restate those
messages, so that for child file browses, one could say
"Beginning of Details" and "End of Details" instead
of BOF & EOF.

Bruce

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.