Re: Cursor positioning WHILE in INPUT ARRAY (help)

chriss@crusher.amgen.com (Chris Silvester) writes: >Okay all you Informix gurus/hackers, I have a need to position >the cursor while within an INPUT ARRAY statement, i.e. from the >BEFORE ROW control block. >Since, at least in my version, I cannot get WORDWRAP to work in >an array situation (seems to hit some kind of infinate loop, and >application must be killed), I am manually trying to do the >WORDWRAP in the AFTER ROW and BEFORE ROW control blocks of the >INPUT ARRAY statement. Through substring manipulation/checking, >I have gotten as far as actually wrapping the incomplete word to >the next line...however, the cursor appears at the beginning of >that line, at the start of the wrapped word. Obviously, not of >much use as is. >So, thru manipulation of internal informix variables to position >the cursor after the wrapped word, or by simply stuffing the >word into the keyboard buffer (?), or some other solution, I >need to complete this task. >Anyone have ideas/insights? Although I don't consider it a really "good" workaround, what I've done in a similar situation is to call a function in the BEFORE FIELD control block of the variable you want to wordwrap that pops a window and uses wordwrap in a simple INPUT BY NAME. Then returning to the array input, display whatever part of the long string that will fit. This works ok for new input, but for modification of existing data the user would still have to move within the existing text as required. Allowing WORDWRAP in an INPUT ARRAY is an existing feature request, I believe. ================ Dennis J. Pimple Informix CSE / Denver