RE: Displaying negatives on a screen

["Shaw, David" <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, there is an alternative.  Use the hyphen (-) and field exit rather
than Field-.  If you're using an emulator with a remappable keyboard (like
Client Access), you can do this right in the keyboard map so that the key
can still be used.  Just create a macro, then remap the key to the macro.

Dave Shaw
Spartan International, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC

-----Original Message-----
From: William A.(Tony) Corbett [mailto:corbett@asresources.com]

Ron, 
If you're referring to the special character (L or J or whatever, depending
on the last number) showing up in place of the trailing "-" when you use
Field-, I don't believe there is a way to change that.  The field will
redisplay correctly when you resdisplay the screen, honoring the edtcode (or
edtword) you have on the field. 
If this is not what you're referring to, I have no idea. 
The short answer is: redisplay the screen. 
We have a series of screens that will display the special character for a 
negative when a negative value is entered.  The edit code is "L".  It does 
not seem to matter what the edit code is set at, it still displays that 
special character on the screens.  What do we need to do to get it to 
display a "-" instead? 
TIA 
Ron 
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William A.(Tony) Corbett 
corbett@asresources.com 
http://www.asresources.com 
http://www.cbt400.com 
  
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