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- From: dave.snyder@snide.com (Dave Snyder)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: Fixes to Informix-4gl
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 22:13:03 -0500
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- Quoting carl.t.mosley...
- }
- } How about an improved DISPLAY ARRAY where the user can, for example,
- } press the letter "N" and the array will automatically scroll to the
- } row(s) beginning with "N"? If I am using DISPLAY ARRAY for some sort of
- } "browse" function or a "pick list" I would like to allow a user to quickly
- } skip around in the array to find what they are looking for. It is not
- } a good situation when I have a screen record of 10 rows and the array
- } being displayed has 200 choices and the user has to press "page ahead"
- } 20 times to get to the end of the list...
- }
- Sounds great... but what happens if the data isn't sorted alphabetically?
- An example that comes to mind is in a medical system that I just wrote.
- There is a pop-up window of languages that people have to select from.
- In our area, ENGLISH is first, SPANISH is second, FRENCH third, etc. I
- display this by using an internal sequence number assigned by the customer.
- Now although there are only about a dozen or two languages and "page ahead"
- would only have to be hit twice, how would this work if you had many rows?
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