Marc,
I've never done this, but with some effort it might work...
Button One [Start BoilerPlate] :
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Output YourFile.cmd
Wri 'Set v YourVarChar VarChar = +'
Output Screen
Button Two [Select Text]:
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...Do stuff here to get text into note variable...
output YourFile.cmd Append
wri .YourNoteVar
output screen
&YourFile
Button Three [Save Text]:
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Insert/Update yourVarCharCol ... use .YourVarChar
Del YourFile.cmd
In a multi-user environment you might want to use (filename(0)) to
generate the name for yourFile.cmd
Ben Petersen
On 28 Jun 2001, at 13:43, marc wrote:
> Hi all
>
>
> I am wanting to use VARCHAR col in a form to create
> letters to clients because the 4k limit of notes fields
> is too small. But I can't use varchar's in expressions.
>
> I want my form to work something like this.
> Have a Custnum field, date... then several buttons
> and a varchar col. Each Button would pull up a
> Choose box to select some canned text. This text
> would be placed into the varchar col on the form.
> The user could click on another button for another
> paragraph or they could go into the varchar col and
> edit the text.
>
> I am doing something like this using a note field but I
> can't get it to work with varchar's.
>
> thanks for any suggestions
> marc
>
>
>
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