re @wordwrap

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Richard Kreiss (Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:33:03 -0400):

> I have written routines to use wordwrap to create text on forms and letters
> where the text except the "merge" fields are static within paragraphs.
>
> One of my clients has added 12 fields to a screen (72 chr each) to use as a
> memo screen.  This information will be a popup screen from other files.
>
> No my problem, I have use wordwrap for a simple memo file with only 2 fields
> and it works.  However, expanding this to 12 fields and allow for editing,
> etc, seems a daunting task.

How would you distinguish between "hard" and "soft" returns within a set
of 12 fields?

You could treat it as one line, with no hard returns, by concatenating
the fields together, and wordwrap that set.

> Has anyone done this?  Or maybe you have a suggestion as to how best to
> handle this.

You would need to give a better description of how you envision "this"
to function.

> Using a memo field is no and option as there is also specific text on this
> screen and I am not aware of a way to popup a memo field from on file while
> in IUA in another.

What's wrong with "MEMO lookupname[field] SHOW" (and/or EDIT)?

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