Re: 4GL form won't fit on a screen

Path: emory!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!horga!yedik!bwhwob!bernd From: bernd@bwhwob.han.de (Bernd Wiegmann) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Message-ID: <5Nqi03w164w@bwhwob.han.de> Date: 9 Oct 91 09:08:47 GMT References: <187026@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Organization: Home, sweet home. smfst2@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Seth M Fuller) writes: > In article <1991Oct5.171602.13440@StarConn.com> pmahler@StarConn.com (Paul Ma > >alanb@vexcel.com (Alan Baxter) writes: > > > >I want to use a screen form in 4GL for manipulating reseau calibration > >reports in a photogrammetric database. The problem is that a reasonably > >formatted form won't fit on one screen. > One thing that you could do is have a pop-up window with the rest of the > screen in it. You could access the window with a function key in your first > screen. In this way you would get as close as possible to have everything > on one screen. When the user wanted to edit/view the stuff that wouldn't > fit on the first screen it is only a function key away. When the user exits > the window his other screen is right there underneath (if you close the > window of course). Is it possible to use nested INPUT statements ? I am using 4GL 1.10 with MS-DOS. I think, I got an error message that told me that it is not possible to use INPUT within another INPUT statement. Is this just a limitation of this version ? Bernd -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bernd Wiegmann | e-mail: bernd@bwhwob.sub.org Rolandstrasse 5, | Tel.: +49 5363 4353 D-3180 Wolfsburg 1 | (voice only)