Re: Display array highlist

shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk (Stuart Hemming) writes: >In-Reply-To: <1992Dec21.175031.11266@informix.com> cortesi@informix.com (David Cortesi) >I think a better way would be to arrange to have the report generated >to a file with the programmer responsible for line and page length. >Then Informix need only provide a file viewer in a window. The logic >for this could (should?) be very simple. >If this idea where implemented along with the dynamic report >definitions (variables for output target, line and page length) then >reports could be set up in apps to print on 60 line paper pages, in full >screen and windowed views. >How does that grab you? The latter (ability to use variables in the OUTPUT section) is generally accepted as a Good Idea, I think. As to the file viewer window, why do you want Informix to reinvent the browser that exists on every platform already (and probably do it wrong :) when you could just, for example, RUN "less /tmp/report.01" Or under a GUI, RUN "/usr/openwin/bin/textedit /tmp/report.01" WITHOUT WAITING You could even pass -Geometry arguments... that should impress the troops...