browse lookup

Bruce Easton bruce at stn.com
Thu Jan 19 11:24:19 PST 2012


Maybe I missed a follow-up on this, but in case there wasn't one, I 
believe the
problem here was that filepro's field indicators should not have been left
off of the expressions for field 1 and dummy field zc inside the 
assignment to
dummy var "ac" that is used to define the browse data line.

Bruce

On 1/12/12 4:31 PM, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> (Looks like your MS Outlook's quoting is broken again.  I hope my manual
> corrections have fixed this reply.)
>
> On 1/12/2012 4:09 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
> [...]
>>>> I am having difficulty getting a browse lookup . I need to highlight items
>>>> which are unpaid.
>>>> In the record field(33) will  be 6 or greater if it is a closed item.
>>> [...]
>>>>           Then: aa="(brw=12 xkey=xc show=pkeep prc=do_hilt fill=desc,top)"
>>>>           Then: AB="[\b5     SJ #  Due Date   Ex Date   tp    Amount
>>> Paid     Status   Cancel  \a-"
>>>>           Then: AC=""{zc<"1      *7         *8        *6   *9        *40
>>> *33   *68"<zf
>>> [...]
>>>> Why is the highlight no working when the value of zc is set AC=""{zc<"?
>>> Because zc is blank.
> [...]
>> Check the debugger and zc was set.
> No it's not.  You're checking in the wrong place.  Check it at the time the
> above statement is executed.
>
>> I have checked it in the debugger and it is set.  Why would it lose its
>> value when the record is displayed?
> It didn't lose anything.  You haven't set any value yet.
>



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