Thanks Randy,
I tried setting SELMARGIN from 0 to 10 and
no setting made any difference in the position of the
text of the TITLE line. It looks like the text designated for
the TITLE line is CENTERED no matter what the settings are.
Actually this has become a diversion beyond its importance.
I have to resist the temptation to keep at this.
Maybe 7.0 will make this a mute point.
Wouldn't that be nice!
Sharon Lima
----- Original Message -----
From: "randyp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 3:08 AM
Subject: Re: Choose Part 2 - Text Formatting
> Sharon,
>
> Is the the issue you were dealing with?
>
>
> Syntax: SET SELMARGIN value
>
> Range: 0 to the width of your screen
>
> Default: 0
>
> Use SELMARGIN to set the left margin for displaying the results of a
SELECT
> command.
> The default for SELMARGIN is 0 (zero), which sets the margin to column 2.
Use
> SELMARGIN when an ASCII file requires a predefined position or when data
has a
> required starting point.
>
> Note: Setting SELMARGIN to 0 (zero) or 2 begins the left margin at column
two.
>
> Randy Peterson
>
> PS. You might try setting SELMARGIN to 1 if you want the title in the far
> left position.
>
> Sharon Lima wrote:
>
> > Just to follow-up, I finally came up with the following:
> > Since I could not move the Title Line all the way to the left,
> > I added spaces before the first column so it falls under
> > "Last Name" of the Title Line.
> >
> > CHOOSE vtEmpID FROM #VALUES FOR +
> > (' ' +
> > & LJS(FORMAT(ELNAME,'%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%'),16) +
> > & LJS(FORMAT(EFNAME,'%%%%%%%%%%%%'),12) +
> > & LJS(FORMAT(SPOUSE,'%%%%%%%%%%'),10)), +
> > EMP# FROM Employee +
> > ORDER BY ELNAME, EFNAME +
> > AT CENTER, CENTER TITLE +
> > 'Last Name First Name Spouse' +
> > LINES 8 FORMATTED
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bill Downall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 4:48 PM
> > Subject: Re: Choose Part 2 - Text Formatting
> >
> > > On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 20:43:10 +0100, Alastair Burr wrote:
> > >
> > > >I think it was Bill Downall who has used a union command in the
> > > >choose to add in a header line to the menu items.
> > >
> > > Yes, but it was rather kludgy. You have to be sure that the title
sorts
> > > alphabetically first, before the first real choice, and your code has
to
> > be
> > > ready to deal with somebody choosing your jury-rigged "title."
> > >
> > > Richard's idea of "trial and error" until they line up with the TITLE
> > 'title
> > > text' syntax is what I usually do.
> > >
> > > What's quite nice now is that the newest DOS version will gracefully
> > > ignore the Windows-only syntax features, like CAPTION and
> > > FORMATTED, so you can more easily create CHOOSE commands
> > > that look good in either DOS and Windows versions.
> > >
> > > Bill
> > >
> > >
> > >
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