scrolling fields

[Richard Kreiss]

A while back someone asked if a protected field ( !field value) could use the backslash to truncate the field to make it into a scrolling field.

This question has two answers:


1.      Yes, one can place a backslash \ to reduce the amount of the field displayed

2.      No, the field will not be scrollable as this is a protected field and the cursor will never enter the field to allow for scrolling.

The way to handle this would be to use an @key to display the full field when necessary. I am doing this for an email address field which is a 70 character field.  The screen only displays 50 characters which is enough for most email addresses.  If someone needs to see the full address they can press <E>-email option which pops up the full address.   Only specific people can change an email address, if it is one of those individuals, they get up a listbox of options.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting
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