Karen, I am not sure if Gunnar is using it for display, but ListBoxes preserve Lines on the CRLF and LF boundaries, so if you have formatted output to a file, you could load it into a listbox using Load_From_File and it would display as originally formatted. Again, some of the sample stuff I prepared, although not intended for this purpose, will show that behavior.
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 4:44 PM Subject: [RBG7-L] - Re: RBase 7.5 & 8 Gunnar: 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. that's 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. > > > >
