Cognose Fails to Believe in Itself [Was: To generate cobol de finitions from powerhouse dictionary]

[Pickering, John (NORBORD)]

I've got several "monster" screens which do a pile of editing as well. Where
the edits are very simple (e.g. lookup on table, display the description,
move on -- as in a States or Provinces table) I have removed them from the
screen by putting fieldtext into a temporary, calling a ghost screen passing
the fieldtext temp and another temp to return the description. The ghost
screen does the lookup, assigns the description to the passed temp and
returns. It ain't the most elegant but I'm not holding my breath waiting for
the 63 files enhancement :-)

Regards,
JWP

-----Original Message-----
From: Darren Reely
To: Al Karman
Cc: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Sent: 10/8/03 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: Cognose Fails to Believe in Itself [Was: To generate cobol
definitions from powerhouse dictionary]

Al Karman wrote:

>Darren posts...
>
>For 
>instance I just got screwed by the QDesign 31 file limit.
>
>To Which Al Replies....
>
>Does that screwing get in line after a <possible>  mediocre design
>forcing all these files onto 1 screen-set...???
>
One may argue that. The fact is this screen performs very heavy 
necessary edit checking against the database. Supplying early feedback 
to the user is common in this code I maintain. I've gained two file 
statements back by using a cursor. There are always options. Current 
problem is, this isn't enough, so I'm still working the issues out.

Darren

P.S. Just in case anyone is wondering, I've inherited the design and
code.