Marc,
I forgot to mention earlier that you will probably need to play with
the eof setting to get things to concatenate the way you want.
Ben Petersen
On 3 Jul 2001, at 7:50, marc wrote:
> Thanks Ben
>
> I will look into this
>
> marc
>
>
> At 01:41 PM 06/28/2001 +0100, you wrote:
> >Marc,
> >
> >I've never done this, but with some effort it might work...
> >
> >Button One [Start BoilerPlate] :
> >----------------------------
> >Output YourFile.cmd
> >Wri 'Set v YourVarChar VarChar = +'
> >Output Screen
> >
> >
> >Button Two [Select Text]:
> >------------------------------
> >...Do stuff here to get text into note variable...
> >output YourFile.cmd Append
> >wri .YourNoteVar
> >output screen
> >&YourFile
> >
> >Button Three [Save Text]:
> >-----------------------------------
> >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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