Re: Display file cursor positioning -- can somebody clarify, and/or jog my memory?

[Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxx>]

Look at this DDS and note SFLRCDNBR(CURSOR)


003.00      A          R CSFLCTL 
SFLCTL(CSFL)                             050531
003.10      A*
003.20      A SFLSIZ(0015)                             050531
003.30      A SFLPAG(0005)                             050531
003.40      A CA06                                     050531
003.50      A PAGEDOWN                                 050531
003.60      A BLINK                                    050531
003.70      A OVERLAY                                  050531
003.80      A  42 SFLDSP                                   050531
003.90      A  41 SFLDSPCTL                                050531
004.00      A  40 SFLCLR                                   050531
004.10      A  99 SFLEND(*MORE)                            050531
004.20      A N10 SFLFOLD(CA11)                            050531
004.30      A  10 SFLDROP(CA11)                            050531
004.40      A SFLMODE(&SFMODE)                         050531
004.50      A            RCDNBR         4S 0H 
SFLRCDNBR(CURSOR)                        050531
004.60      A            SFMODE         1A 
H                                               050531
On 11/15/2012 10:04 AM, James Lampert wrote:
> It's been a while for me on this one; I'm sure I've done at least part
> of this before, but I'm not sure if I've done it all. And I'm having
> difficulty understanding the manual on it.
>
> I have two different situations that look the same, but are probably
> different: in one, I have an actual subfile screen, with a selection
> column, while in the other, I have a fixed screen (actually, a series of
> fixed screens) that only *looks* like a subfile with a selection column.
>
> In both cases, when one selects a row, the program goes to another
> screen, where one can perform an operation for that row, then returns to
> the (real or fake) subfile screen from which one selected the row.
>
> When one returns, the cursor always goes to the top of the selection column.
>
> I've been asked to refine this, so that the cursor goes to the row one
> just finished working with.
>
> I believe CSRLOC is probably my answer for the "fake subfile" screen,
> but the manual says this doesn't work for subfiles. And the manual entry
> for SFLRCDNBR has the puzzling statement, "If the subfile record format
> contains field selection, this keyword is not allowed." What exactly
> does THAT mean?