4gl Picture Directive.

Posted in 1999

Topics: Connectivity: ESQL/C, 4GL & Embedded SQL

Kortney Goodman — Fri, 24 Sep 1999 11:02:43 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

I have a form with a phone field in it. It Looks like this. f009 = cust_mast.phone, PICTURE = "###-###-####",COMMENTS="Phone Number [ESC] to Search"; When I use a CONSTRUCT statement the input is not masked with the picture. But when i use the INPUT statement it does. Why is this. I am running: 4gl version 6.05.UD1 on SCO. Thank you Bryan

↪ replying to Kortney Goodman

Steven Wilcoxon — Fri, 24 Sep 1999 12:48:27 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

A CONSTRUCT statement has to be able to handle QBE capability (examples:>5434 or 543[567]*). This makes it impractical to use any PICTURES. S.W. Kortney Goodman <kortney@gundaker.com> wrote in message news:niNG3.5380$FW6.9161@dfw-read.news.verio.net... > I have a form with a phone field in it. It Looks like this. > > f009 = cust_mast.phone, PICTURE = "###-###-####",COMMENTS="Phone Number > [ESC] to Search"; > > When I use a CONSTRUCT statement the input is not masked with the picture. > But when i use the INPUT statement it does. > > Why is this. I am running: 4gl version 6.05.UD1 on SCO. > > Thank you > Bryan >

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