Re: Blobs in 4GL

shoe@forte.sps.mot.com (John Shoemaker) writes: >Fellow netters, >I am using a text blob in my 4GL input statement. My two questions are: >1) do you have a good end-user editor (for non-computer users) You could use a commercial word processore in ASCII mode. >2) how can I invoke the editor without having the user type "!"? I would > like to automatically place them there. In 4GL, you could LOCATE the blob and RUN the editor in a BEFORE FIELD statement. You might be able to do something similar in a perform BEFORE EDITEADD EDITUPDATE statement, but I haven't tried it. ============================================================ Dennis J. Pimple Informix Software Inc Senior Consultant Denver Colorado USA dennisp@informix.com Voice:303-850-0210 Fax:303-779-4025