Good point, Chris!


To Patrik - 5250 screens can have windows - rectangular areas that are smaller than the whole screen, usually with some kind of border. This isn't MS Windows! :)


Cheers
Vern


On Mon, 9 Oct, 2023 at 1:24 PM, Christopher Doleshal <christopher.doleshal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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How is it not related?

-Chris Doleshal






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Hello Doug,

not really related to RPGā€¦


Am 09.10.2023 um 18:20 schrieb DEnglander--- via RPG400-L <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>:

I am rewriting a window pop-up program to allow it to display on either 24x80 or 27x132 based on a parameter passed into the ILERPG program.

When the program is called for 24x80 I have the window one size, and when it is called for 27x132, the window is longer on the screen [more rows], but not any wider.

I want to have a message subfile also appear within the pop-up, but have it display on a line within the 24x80 size, but two or 3 lines lower on the 27x132 screen size.

I was thinking of using SFLMSGRCD and passing a program defined field to it to contain the dynamic line number, but that option is not allowed with the SFLMSGRCD keyword.

Has anyone done this? I am thinking the only way to do this is to define two DSPF formats for this pop-up, with the different SFLMSGRCD values, but that seems redundant.

You can code two location lines per element. See

https://www.ibm.com/resources/publications/OutputPubsDetails?PubID=SC41571501

PDF Page 58 "Specifying Valid Screen Sizes".

With some effort you can probably make use of a wider display with conditional overlapping fields. I've not yet tried that, though.

:wq! PoC

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