Re: Has anyone written a word wrap routine for text?

Path: emory!europa.asd.contel.com!uunet!ddssuprs!lpc From: lpc@ddssuprs.uucp (Luis P Caamano) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Keywords: informix Message-ID: <1992Jan25.020930.25632@ddssuprs.uucp> Date: 25 Jan 92 02:09:30 GMT References: <1992Jan21.163335.14195@cbnews.cb.att.com> <1604@das13.snide.com> Organization: Dickens Data Systems, Inc. In article <1604@das13.snide.com> dave@das13.snide.com (Dave Snyder) writes: >In article <1992Jan21.163335.14195@cbnews.cb.att.com>, mvctm@cbnews.cb.att.com (carl.t.mosley) writes: >-> I am using 4GL 1.10 w/ SE. Has anyone come up with a way to create >-> "memo" fields? If I put the following fields in a screen form >-> >-> I would like to somehow combine the separate fields into one, or the >-> illusion of one, program variable so that when the user is typing away >-> the words automatically wrap down to the next row. > >Informix 4.0 will allow you to specify WORDWRAP in your form specification. > That's a "neat" feature that I've never used since WORDWRAP works only on a single big field splitted on the screen. If the user only types on a single line you waste the rest of the field on the database. OK. Let's use VARCHAR. Sure, but how big will you make the field on the form? Well, 6 lines would be fine. What if the memo takes more than six lines? well, ... and so on ... What I really want is to have a table called 'lines' with two fields, one the document id (the join) and the other one is the line field. Then I'll define a 6 lines array field on the form with a max program array of let's say 300. That would give me a 300 lines memo pad. Then I use my input array on the field and then you'll have a efficient memo field. If the user only types one line then I'll have only one record on the lines table. It's here where I want a wordwrap feature. As you might guess what I want is the wordwrap feature implemented on a another kind of input array command or the WORDWRAP feature with scrolling capabilities on a VARCHAR field. Get the idea? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Luis P. Caamano | Support Services Engineer | uunet!ddssuprs!lpc Dickens Data Systems, Norcross GA | (404) 242-5991 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you think you know something, you'll stop learning. -myself