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Columbia Sports Company
Portland, OR
Positioning the cursor in a display
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Published: 22 Jun 2012
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Positioning the cursor in a display Published by: Chris Proctor on 22 Jun 2012 view comments(5)

Happy Friday! That must be why I'm drawing a blank. I'm using F4 to allow the user to prompt on a number of fields in my dspf (not a sfl) and once they've made their selection from my dropdown window the cursor is returning to the first imput-capable field in the record format. I want the cursor to stay on the prompted field. I can't remember how to do that. I am using RTNCSRLOC in the format to tell me &rcd and &fld.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Chris

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Posted by: DaleB
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Reading, PA
Comment on: Positioning the cursor in a display
Posted: 6 years 8 months 28 days 21 hours 17 minutes ago

DSPATR(PC), which is position cursor attribute. Need indicators to select where you want it active. If more than one active, it goes to uppermost, leftmost.

The other way is CSRLOC(row-field col-field), where they are both 3S0 hidden fields in the same record format. If both are active, CSRLOC overrides DSPATR(PC).

If you've got a subfile, you can also use SFLRCDNBR(CURSOR), which puts the cursor in the first input-field in the row identified by the SFLRCDNBR field. CSRLOC overrides SFLRCDNBR(CURSOR), too.

Posted by: neilrh
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Jackson, MI
Comment on: Positioning the cursor in a display
Posted: 6 years 8 months 28 days 20 hours ago

One place I worked wanted the cursor back where you found it after a prompt.  Had to use the csr-x, csr-y method Dale suggests.  However, we did get complaints when someone had the cursor in the middle of the promptable field and that's where I put it back to.  General user concensus was please put the cursor back at the beginning of the field we just prompted - so we changed to using DSPATR(PC).

Posted by: TFisher
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Comment on: Positioning the cursor in a display
Posted: 6 years 8 months 24 days 22 hours ago
Edited: Thu, 28 Jun, 2012 at 06:19:42 (2457 days ago)

Consider removing DSPATR(PC) and creating a function to retrieve row/column for a given field and use the CSRLOC keyword to position the cursor. 

 

My opinion is that DSPATR(PC) should never be used anymore.  There simply is no need to add this type of code to a modern RPG program.

Posted by: melindajwebb
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Comment on: Positioning the cursor in a display
Posted: 6 years 7 months 7 days 2 minutes ago

I would like to get the code from TFisher for the prRtvRowCol() if at all possible.  Please email me at melindawebb@cableone.net

 

thank you

Posted by: gopf
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Tahiti French Polynesi
Comment on: Positioning the cursor in a display
Posted: 6 years 6 months 20 days 18 hours 47 minutes ago

Chris, If you want the cursor to stay on the prompted field, the best way is to use the following DDS keywords , no need to create a function or write code.

First RTNCSRLOC will return the name of the field

Second RTNCSRLOC will return cursor location (&NUMLIG &NUMPOS)

CSRLOC must have same fields name spécified in the second RTNCSRLOC (&NUMLIG &NUMPOS)

R A1                                                        
                            CF04                            
                            RTNCSRLOC(&£FORM &£FIELD)       
                            RTNCSRLOC(*MOUSE &NUMLIG &NUMPOS)
                            CSRLOC(NUMLIG     NUMPOS)       
  £FORM        10A  H                                      
  £FIELD        10A  H                                      
  NUMLIG       3S 0H                                      
  NUMPOS      3S 0H