DCSAY / GET question

[BruceN]

This is probably a no-brainer for you wizards out there...
I am trying to have data from a dbf file display and update as the record changes. I want the data display to look like a 'say' (just text over the background) not a 'get' (square box with data in it).

I tried using the grastring on a dcsay, but it isn't getting refreshed with the new value. Simple example attached.
I'm using xbase 355 and express 254 for this.

(In example. just click 'search' button and that changes value of variable (m_serno), but grastring say still shows old value

[bwolfsohn]

Bruce,

if i remember properly, you can't have live info in a grastring.. needs to be a dcsay inside a codeblock

i do it this way:

@ xx,yy DCSAY {||myalias->myfield}

that will update on a refresh

Brian

[BruceN]

THAT WORKS!!!!! I wish I knew that a while ago... could have made things MUCH slicker.

mucho thankso....

[BruceN]

Related question....

How would you do that with a DCMULTILINE?

@ 8,15 DCMULTILINE {||calls->c_problem} SIZE 50,5 gives a syntax error

[bwolfsohn]

Related question....

How would you do that with a DCMULTILINE?

@ 8,15 DCMULTILINE {||calls->c_problem} SIZE 50,5 gives a syntax error

DCMULTILINE cContents ID "CCONTENTS"

DC_GetObject(GetList,'CCONTENTS'):setData(cNewContents)

[rdonnay]

It looks like I need to add support for a code block.
I'll put it on my list.

[BruceN]

OK.. now I feel real good. It wasn't some stupid thing I was doing, and I found an 'oversight' in your library. Gee, I may have actually contributed something that will help others!

[bwolfsohn]

OK.. now I feel real good. It wasn't some stupid thing I was doing, and I found an 'oversight' in your library. Gee, I may have actually contributed something that will help others!

Bruce,

Even a blind squirrel occasionally finds an acorn



I've felt that way many a time..

[BruceN]

And I DEFINATELY qualify as the progamming equivilent of a blind squirrel.

If you took everythnig I know about programming and shove it up a gnat's ass it would rattle around like a pea in a boxcar!

b