Re: Reverse Issue with AIX

[SNIP] >them otherwise. Under AIX, the form appears to override the precendent >that the program should have over the form and once you enter the INPUT >statement the form overrides the displays. > >Here are two examples of the problem: > >Under AIX, when a program attempts to control the display (using the >ATTRIBUTE statement) within an INPUT statement to be REVERSE or BOLD >depending on conditions it fails and the form's defined display takes over. >Basically, if you have an input statement and wish for a display to be bold >but leave the form as default when the programs enters the input statement >the reverse will disappear and the form's default will take over and cause >the screen to be normal and not bold. > >A second way of looking at this problem is that if you secify the display >to be bold in the BEFORE FIELD and at some point CONTINUE INPUT, which >takes you back to the field but skips the before field logic, the form >takes over and bold will not be displayed. Therefore, creating a fix of >specifying the display in the before field is near impossible. Have you done: INPUT xxxx WITHOUT DEFAULTS FROM yyyy that should take form defaultys out. (you may of done) INPUT xxxx FROM yyyy This will keep defaults in. Jamie