RE: Different Display Screen Sizes same DSPF

["Jonathan Mason" <jonathan.mason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeff

The DSPMOD(*DS3) keyword that you have on your subfile control is forcing
the subfile to be in 24x80 mode.  The error message you are getting is a
warning message referring to the OVERLAY keyword which is ignored if the
display mode changes.

Usually when I'm coding for *DS3 and *DS4 display sizes it is because I want
to make use of the larger 27x132 character screens and I code alternative
screen positions according to the mode.  For example:

 A                                      DSPSIZ(27 132 *DS4                 -

 A                                             24  80 *DS3)

 A                                      MSGLOC(27)

 A  *DS3                                MSGLOC(24)

 A                                      CA03(03 'Exit')

 A******************************************************************* 
 A          R PROMPT                    OVERLAY

 A                                      VLDCMDKEY(25 'Valid command key for-

 A                                       Prompt')

 A*

 A            @TITLE        78A  O  1 28TEXT('List Active FG/SFG Items')

 A  *DS3                            1  2


Here *DS4 is the default mode and the screen title is displayed on line 1
position 28 with the message subfile being positioned on line 27.  If the
display doesn't handle 27x132 characters then the title will start at
position 2 on line 1 and the message subfile on line 24.

Hope it helps

Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jeff Williams
Sent: 27 March 2007 03:41
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Different Display Screen Sizes same DSPF

Hi everyone. I have a subfile display program with many screens and multiple

subfiles. Some of the screens are over 80 and some are lower than 80. I want

to set it up so that the screens will resize more accurately. I have never 
done this before but I am pretty sure I can do it using this:
A                                      DSPSIZ(27 132 *DS4
A                                             24 80 *DS3)

When I try just to compile with the above code without adding it to the 
subfile control I get this error message:
 CPD7812      30        2      Message . . . . :   Subfile control record 
overlaps subfile record.
 CPD7817      30        4      Message . . . . :   Value on SFLPAG keyword 
too large for display size.

When I add one of the display sizes to a subfile control I get this warning 
message as well as the ones above:
CPD8018      10        1      Message . . . . :   Keyword may not function 
as expected with DSPMOD.

Here is what one of my subfile controls look like:
A          R S01CTL                    SFLCTL(S01SFL) 
070221
A*%%TS  SD  20070221  003008  ECK         REL-V5R3M0  5722-WDS 
070221
A                                      SFLSIZ(0020) 
070221
A                                      SFLPAG(0019) 
070221
A                                      CF03(03 'EXIT') 
070221
A                                      ROLLUP 
070221
A                                      OVERLAY 
070221
A                                      DSPMOD(*DS3) 
070327
A  50                                  SFLDSP 
070221
A  51                                  SFLDSPCTL 
070221
A  52                                  SFLCLR 
070221
A  53                                  SFLEND(*MORE) 
070221

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you very much

Jeff Williams