Re: in "ON KEY" block, display is not working, help?

Ramki, I ran into this once before and I will see if I can remember what is actually going on. While you are inside the field all keystrokes are held inside the field buffer. The buffer doesn't write to the variable until you press enter on that field. When you do this the buffer writes to the variable and then displays the variable. Until then the display is just the buffer. If you want to get the beuufer into the variable try the get_fldbuf() function. I believe the syntax would be something like let X=get_fldbuf(status). Now I'm only telling you this from memory so if I'm wrong about any of this I hope someone else out there will straighten me out. HTH Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Cullipher <joseph@cannonexpress.com> Standard Disclaimers Apply ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Ramki Natesan wrote: } Hi All, } } "DISPLAY xxx TO yyy " statement is not working while the control is in } "ON KEY" block. The following is the code. Could some one help. } } INPUT } l_date, } l_status } } FROM } frm1.l_date, } frm1.status } } ON KEY (CONTROL-B) } IF INFIELD(status) THEN } CALL display_status() RETURNING l_status } DISPLAY "The val is: ",l_status sleep 2 <--- fine at here } DISPLAY l_status TO frm1.status <--- not displaying, why? } but displays when I leave } the field and go to next. } END IF } ....... } ...... } END INPUT } } I am using INFORMIX-4GL Version 6.00.UE1(SunOS), Online 7.x database. } } Thx in advance, } //Ramki. }