You might have a database column called description which is conmtains
characters of length 30 but only have room on your form to display, say,
ten characters. You would then have the field length 30 and the display
length 10. Of course you would allow the users to pull up the edit window
to see the field as a whole to edit it properly.
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Alan D. Mills
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Martin Meadows <mmeadows_at_indy.net> wrote in article
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> I just looked at field in an existing form that I brought up with the
> load option in sqlforms30. I loaded the form info from a file called
> "the_screen.inp". I then used image/painter to get into the form.
> Finally, I checked (with define field) a field in the form to see how it
> was defined. I found that the field length was set to 12 & the display
> length was set to 10.
>
> When does it ever make sense to make the field length longer than the
> display length? And if this sometimes make sense, why does it make
> sense?
>
> Thanks again,
> Martin Meadows
>
Received on Mon Mar 16 1998 - 00:00:00 CST
