I haven't played around with the "load from file" thing yet. The main purpose of screen writes (in my case) is to show data on the screen (a select statement or a bunch of variables) and overlay the screen with a dialog command to ask for some kind of response. They need the data on the screen in front of them while they have the dialog box. That's why I don't just write the display to a text file and use Launch to display it; you don't get the text file along with a dialog box. Are you saying that the "screen write" would appear inside one component on the form, while I might have another control to gather their response?
Karen
As for the writes I do the writes to a diskfile.
The diskfile I use with the Property <Componentid> LOAD_FROM_FILE to a user defined variable listbox. thatâs is how I converted/or plan to convert some quick and dirtys selects and writes in my DOS apps to 7.1 Se also posting from MikeB on this subject I works great for its purpose and is as simple as selects and writes in DOS.
