Re: Yet another newbie sqlforms30 question

Alan D. Mills wrote:
>
> 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
> <350C2454.3423_at_indy.net>...
> > 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
> >

Thanks for the response Alan! By the way, how do you allow the users to "pull up the edit window"?

Martin Received on Mon Mar 16 1998 - 00:00:00 CST