Re: Help needed on SQL*FORMS30

From: marc.colten <colten_at_cbnewsb.cb.att.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 16:08:24 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Mar10.160824.21709_at_cbfsb.cb.att.com>


In article <1993Mar08.192733.16593_at_ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM>, sanju_at_churchill.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Sanjeev.Agrawal) writes:
> In article <1993Mar5.172257.24143_at_cbfsb.cb.att.com> you write:
 

> >Another problem, which I cannot find addressed in the manual
> >is "overwrite". For example, if a field is populated and you
> >want to replace the value, you cannot simply overwrite the value.
> >You have to backspace over the existing value and then enter the
> >new one. If the cursor is at the start of the field (as it
> >often is) you have to use the "right" key to move past the field,
> >*then* backspace and enter the new value.
>
> Please check whether char mode is "INSERT" . If it is, then you
> will have to do like this only as field would not accept any thing
> more than its length. Just check it as I never faced this problem
> when Char mode is replace.

Thanks - I did some more checking and found that for my application, R2 will toggle back and forth from insert to replace. Wasn't documented where I could find it at first.

marc colten Received on Wed Mar 10 1993 - 17:08:24 CET

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