Form not underlining
Hi, Running Informix SE 5.10.UC7, 4GL RDS 4.20.UC4 on RS6000 AIX 4.2. In my BEFORE FIELD statements I display a value to the form field with ATTRIBUTE (UNDERLINE ) but when the form is displayed on screen ready for user input, the field is not underlined. I use the underlining to give the user some notion as to how big the field is because I don't use the [ ] brackets to surround the fields; they make the screen display look cluttered. Any ideas or suggestions would be very welcome. Cheers, Sticky Pudding. -- What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away.
You need to check terminfo/termcap for the underline code. The reason may be that yor particular terminal doesn't have a correct entry. Hot Sticky Pudding <invalid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:383bc91c.4947990@news.globalnet.co.uk... > Hi, > > Running Informix SE 5.10.UC7, 4GL RDS 4.20.UC4 on RS6000 AIX 4.2. > > In my BEFORE FIELD statements I display a value to the form field with > ATTRIBUTE (UNDERLINE ) but when the form is displayed on screen ready > for user input, the field is not underlined. > > I use the underlining to give the user some notion as to how big the > field is because I don't use the [ ] brackets to surround the fields; > they make the screen display look cluttered. > > Any ideas or suggestions would be very welcome. > > Cheers, Sticky Pudding. > -- > What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away.
Hot Sticky Pudding wrote: > Hi, > > Running Informix SE 5.10.UC7, 4GL RDS 4.20.UC4 on RS6000 AIX 4.2. > > In my BEFORE FIELD statements I display a value to the form field with > ATTRIBUTE (UNDERLINE ) but when the form is displayed on screen ready > for user input, the field is not underlined. > > I use the underlining to give the user some notion as to how big the > field is because I don't use the [ ] brackets to surround the fields; > they make the screen display look cluttered. > > Any ideas or suggestions would be very welcome. > > Cheers, Sticky Pudding. > -- > What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away. Have you checked your terminal settings? -- Compliments of QueriX -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QueriX 4GL Compilers are Informix 4GL Compatible, and Connection to other RDBMS such as Oracle. Hydra 4GL Compiler Compile once, run everywhere Phoenix Windows GUI. Chimera Java GUI The only GUI you will ever need... Arachne Web Technology For more details visit: http://www.querix.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999 12:34:08 +0200, "Serge Moisseyev" <sm@aetec.ee> wrote: >You need to check terminfo/termcap for the underline code. >The reason may be that yor particular terminal doesn't have a correct entry. Bit late getting back on this one...sorry! Do you know what the underline code is? I use ICE.TCP as my emulating software and it is set to Wyse60. Best regards, Sticky Pudding. -- What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away.
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 14:47:26 +0000, QueriX 4GL / Mehdi <mehdi@querix.com> wrote: >Hot Sticky Pudding wrote: >> Running Informix SE 5.10.UC7, 4GL RDS 4.20.UC4 on RS6000 AIX 4.2. >> >> In my BEFORE FIELD statements I display a value to the form field with >> ATTRIBUTE (UNDERLINE ) but when the form is displayed on screen ready >> for user input, the field is not underlined. >> >> I use the underlining to give the user some notion as to how big the >> field is because I don't use the [ ] brackets to surround the fields; >> they make the screen display look cluttered. >Have you checked your terminal settings? Sorry I'm late getting back to this. I don't know what to check. Any ideas? Emulating Wyse60 with ICE.TCP if that helps. Best regards, Sticky Pudding. -- What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away.
Hot Sticky Pudding wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 14:47:26 +0000, QueriX 4GL / Mehdi > <mehdi@querix.com> wrote: > > >Hot Sticky Pudding wrote: > > >> Running Informix SE 5.10.UC7, 4GL RDS 4.20.UC4 on RS6000 AIX 4.2. > >> > >> In my BEFORE FIELD statements I display a value to the form field with > >> ATTRIBUTE (UNDERLINE ) but when the form is displayed on screen ready > >> for user input, the field is not underlined. > >> > >> I use the underlining to give the user some notion as to how big the > >> field is because I don't use the [ ] brackets to surround the fields; > >> they make the screen display look cluttered. > > >Have you checked your terminal settings? > > Sorry I'm late getting back to this. > I don't know what to check. Any ideas? > > Emulating Wyse60 with ICE.TCP if that helps. termcap and terminfo files on your unix machine would tell the terminal what it has to do when it receives coded instructions from the program (normally curses). some time you would have to map these codes to your terminal in the termcap or terminfo files to get the results you need. There is a considerable amount of documents regarding both termcap and terminfo settings. underline would have its corresponding settings in the termcap/terminfo tables. You are also using a terminal emulator I do not know. The terminal emulator may not be fully emulating the terminal you wish (WISE60). The good thing here is that you are not stack with a dumb terminal. If you have a choice of emulating other terminals such as vt220 then try that on the pc. Do not forget you have to export TERM=vt220 on the unix machine for that user. Best of luck. -- Compliments of QueriX -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QueriX 4GL Compilers are Informix 4GL Compatible, and Connection to other RDBMS such as Oracle. Hydra 4GL Compiler Compile once, run everywhere Phoenix Windows GUI. Chimera Java GUI The only GUI you will ever need... Arachne Web Technology For more details visit: http://www.querix.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------