Quick display popup

[Richard Witkopp]

I think I did something similar to this by re-mapping
the ctrl-b with a qkgo, because ctrl-b was a terminal
server command at my site at the time. IIRC, I was able
to remap ctrl-b to something "pushable". Sorry, that's all
I can remember.
 
> > I've got a quick screen with repeating records on it. Each record
> > has a page or
> > so of text associated with it in a separate (readonly) file.
> > Is there any way to put a popup on the field so that it appears
> > full of text ?
> > All I know how to do is either
> > 	(1) make it popup on accept & have the user hit ctrl/B
> > or	(2) make it a subscreen
> > It would be nice to be able to push the ctrl/B, and/or have a
> > display popup.
> 
> Here's the field statement I've got.
> 
> field style-text id same nolabel display data at ,28 pic "^^^^" &
> 	popup from 3,2 to 22,79
> 
> I'd like the user to easily view/scroll this field, without 
> being allowed to
> change it. The best solution I've got so far is to invoke a subscreen
> containing just one field:
> 
> field style-text hidden label "Text (excluding comments)" at 1,30 &
> 	data at 2,2 for 21,78 predisplay display
> 
> But the only scrolling keys that seem to work on this are 
> PF1/D & PF1/U
> (scroll by line) - no scroll by page, and some of them are biggish.
> 
> The only other way I know to scroll around a field is via the 
> accept verb or
> similar, which then requires the user to hit ctrl/B rather 
> than displaying
> data immediately, and which allows changes.
> 
> I just wondered if there was a neat solution at all.
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Chris Sharman			Chris.Sharman@CCAgroup.co.uk
> CCA Stationery Ltd, Eastway, Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 9WS.
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