Re: Help with ISQL perform screen

dave.snyder@snide.com (Dave Snyder) writes: >Quoting Stuart Hemming... >>> Is there a way in an ISQL perform screen (2.10 soon to upgrade to 4.1) >>> to select a field but not display the results and to update the same field but >>> not display what is being typed and have it verify join with another table? >>> I need this in a database for security purposes. >> You could try setting the field attribute so that the display color >> was the same as the backgroung color. >Duh... now why didn't I think of that when I opened my big yap the other day? >Good answer Stuart. I tried that once (to be able to let the user enter a password without it being echoed on the screen), but the terminals we used then (Tatung, a Korean brand) refused to use the same background and foreground color for some reason unknown to me. So it might be possible that the solution Stuart describes is dependant on the (brand of) terminal you use. -- Marien de Clercq ___ Intergraph European Mfg. bv. /|/| // "Don't believe the hype Nijmegen - The Netherlands / | __// is a sequel" E-mail: clercqm@nijmeg.ingr.com / |/_/ \\___ Snap