Can you display a LONG field in FORMS3.0?

From: Jeff Stander <jstander_at_ml.csiro.au>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 1994 03:15:32 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Aug20.031532.27601_at_ml.csiro.au>


Can anyone tell me if it is possible to easily display a LONG field on FORMS 3.0?

I am trying to build an internal HELP facility that will display a page of text when the user presses the <Help> key. I have RTFM and can't find any solutions I like. One way is to call a 1-field HELP form and invoke the EDIT_FIELD function on startup and ask the user to press the <EXIT> key to quit the help.

Another messier way would break my help message down into lines and call a HELP form that has a lot of non-database fields in it.

Has anybody else faced and solved this problem?

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