Re: Help With CONSTRUCT

Posted in 1994

Colin Mcgrath — 2 Feb 1994 11:03:07 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Eddie Bradford, In your letter, you wrote: : I'm using the CONSTRUCT to do a query in a 4GL program. I'd like to : "pre-load" ... (stuff deleted) : So far the closest I've gotten to the desired result is a DISPLAY of the : five characters to the field, but that leaves the terminal cursor at the first : position of the field, not positioned at the end of the five characters, where : I'd like it to be. You have run up against one of this 4GL's limitations. There is no cursor placement control in "input" or "construct" clauses. Care to write your own? -- Colin McGrath Internet: colin@scdipc0.ueci.com Raytheon Engineers & Constructors Inc. UUCP: ..!uunet!trac2000!trac3000!cmm 30 S. 17th St Voice: 215-422-3449 Philadelphia, PA, 19101 FAX: 215-422-3363