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- This hint specifies the fields that you would need to add to a report filter
- so that the user will be able to specify if their printer has the capability
- to print character from the extended IBM Graphics character set, (specifically
- the line drawing characters).
-
- If, at runtime, the users specifies that the printer can not print these
- characters then all the line drawing characters will be converted to '-','='
- '|'. '"', '+' and '#' to emulate the lines with standard ACSII characters.
-
- First you should add a prompt to the filter window similar to the following :-
-
- Does the printer support IBM Graphics characters
-
- Now add a new filter field to get the user response to this question:--
-
- Field Name Seq Typ Mode Pic Validation Error Message
- ---------- --- --- ---- --- ---------------- -------------------------
- GET_PMODE 1 C E U choice('Y|N',{}) choose(_tts,'Y|N','Yes|No',{})
-
-
- Field Name Seq Typ Mode Pic Compute Expression
- ---------- --- --- ---- --- -------------------------------------------
- SET_PMODE 2 C C X if (GET_PMODE[0] != 'Y') pmode = BasicChrs
-
-
- NOTE : If the output device is the "CON", (Screen), then the characters will
- not undergo any conversion as it is assumed that this device supports
- line characters.