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From: das@trac2000.ueci.com (David Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: INFORMIX - the help message don't disappear
Message-ID: <1022@trac2000.ueci.com>
Date: 23 May 91 10:58:11 GMT
References: <1991May22.152643.27444@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
Organization: UE&C - Catalytic in Philadelphia, PA
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In article <1991May22.152643.27444@rhrk.uni-kl.de>, schulz@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Christian Schulz [MW]) writes:
> to specify a menu entry we have used the following statement
>    COMMAND "ADD" "ADD a new user" HELP 123
> this really works fine but after invoking the HELP-message this message don't disappear from
> the screen even if we correctly leave the HELP-section via RESUME.
> The HELP-message become instead a part of the screen below the menuline.
> 
The problem is that you have text in column 80 of one or more lines in
your form.  For some strange reason HELP leaves its remains at random places
when there is text in column 80 ANYWHERE on the screen.  If you look at the
screens Informix uses... all of them have column 80 unused.

BTW, since you are using Informix-4GL, have you managed to get a copy of my
Public Domain 4GL code generator?  If you would like a copy of "db4glgen",
send me mail and I'll give you instructions to get the code generator and
about a dozen other useful Informix utilities.

DAS
-- 
David A. Snyder @ UE&C - Catalytic in Philadelphia, PA

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