Re: Display array highlist

In <memo.808387@cix.compulink.co.uk> shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk (Stuart Hemming) writes: >In <1992Dec10.181239.29704@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> I, Andrew Burt, wrote: >> But, seriously, here's one that I haven't researched enough to know >> that it can't be done: >> !!!!!! >> Is there any way to display a report to a window, and scroll through ^^^^^^ >> it (up/down)? >In your report include: >OUTPUT > REPORT TO PIPE "less" -- Assumes you have less. Pick it up at > -- FTP site near you NOW! >The only problem with list is that you will always get the output on >the screen. (Actually, most modern 'more's can backscroll. That isn't the point.) The only problem is that the output is on the WHOLE screen, not in a WINDOW. I want to say, "REPORT TO WINDOW foo". Just for grins, I did get this idea implemented. I consider the manner of solution ugly: writing 4gl-C wrappers for fopen, fgets, etc. then defining a screen form N chars wide in M rows, for use in a display array. It's ugly because (once again) you either have to use a fixed size array with display array or roll your own display code (which to me seems insane, since that's the kind of thing 4gl is supposed to do for you!). This is a lot more code than something like OPEN WINDOW foo AT 5,5 WITH 10 ROWS, 60 COLUMNS ... REPORT TO WINDOW foo "report to window" should automatically allow scrolling, like display array. Heck, even having a DISPLAY FILE "report.out" TO WINDOW foo would be good enough for me. Are you listening, Informix? Your customers are speaking... rumble, rumble... :-) -- Andrew Burt aburt@du.edu "But if he was dying he wouldn't bother to carve "Aaaaargh", he'd just say it."