Search results

Hey no worries and no hard feelings at all and BTW you ROCK!! That code worked like a champ I don't have a copy of the edoc's you mentioned. Any advice for a Progress newbie as to where to download a copy?

I'll give that a try Joey and I want you to know how much I appriciate the non-agressive and mutually respectful interaction that has developed for the exchange of ideas.

Hey thanks guys, Sorry about the confusion in the question. I tried creating a snippit of my main code so it would not distract. The reason I broke the phone into two parts was so the first part (011-{country code}-) would be created and just displayed the other part was going to allow the...

I know for a fact my desc field will be no more than 8 characters. What I am trying to avoid is having only spaces between the two variables on the display. I can do this by front loading the first char with spaces but it doesnt look right. if I left it alone it would look like this...

Is there a way to have dynamic formating in a frame Here is an example of what I am trying to do ------------------------------------------------------------------- def var p-desc as char. def var h-desc. form p-desc at 32 format "x(8)" space(0) h-desc skip with side-labels center row...

I did that and got the answer of -1 and you are right the a:screen-value did have what I typed. This is interesting. I also tried something. def var vscan as char format "x(15)". update vscan blank. display vscan. When I did this the second display was also blank. For kickes I tried...

I didn't know about the blank command either. I wrote a kludge script using the blank command and that's nice. In this application though I think the editing block is nice as it doen't have any data stream going back to the screen buffer, ie reducing my time in tranmittence. With the blank...

That did the trick, Thanks so much!! Dave

Hello, I'm working on a problem which I would appriciate some help on. I am writing an application for our RF inventory scanners. The scanner itself is basically a telnet session onto our HP Unix system running progress 8.0. What I am doing is this. def var vscan as char format "x(15)"...