How to create input field of more than 1 line in panel?

manigadu · New User Joined: 29 Aug 2008 Posts: 10 Location: Bangalore

my panel is like this:
)ATTR
_ TYPE(INPUT) INTENS(HIGH) COLOR(RED)
% TYPE(TEXT) INTENS(LOW) SKIP(ON)
+ TYPE(TEXT) INTENS(HIGH) SKIP(ON) PAD(_)
)BODY
%
%Field 1 : _field1
%
%Field 2: _field2
)END

I know that after entering some value to the field1, the cursor automatically goes to field2. But I want my field1 accept 2 lines of data. But after completing the first line, it automatically goes to field 2, Please help in doing this.

kacks7 · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 2:54 pm

hi

remove the '%' in the 3rd line of the body section.

manigadu · New User Joined: 29 Aug 2008 Posts: 10 Location: Bangalore

Thank you very much kacks5, I am learning REXX, and may be you think my questions are very basic. But REXX is really interesting.

I have another question. In any normal ispf panel, the input field contains
a blank (________________) when nothing is entered. Where we can overwrite our data. How can we do that in the REXX Panel?

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 4:59 pm

you would find info easier in the manuals if you would not refer to panels as rexx panels - since they are not.

This is a link to the z/OS ISPF Library. I would start with the dialog devel guide, which discusses ISPF PANELS.

although they will not help you very much understanding ISPF Panels (above reference) the following are libraries and documents concerning REXX:

This is all REXX documents.

This is the REXX Reference Manual
and
this is the REXX User's Guide

Pedro · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 6:41 pm

I think you were asking about underscores. Try this:

kacks7 · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:36 am

hi manigadu,
for more details go through the manuals posted by 'dick'.

Pedro · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:36 pm

Please do not use PAD(_) .

You may think it is trivial, but it makes it hard to type in your field. If you make a mistake and need to insert a character, you cannot without deleting your '_' at the end of the string.

manigadu · New User Joined: 29 Aug 2008 Posts: 10 Location: Bangalore

Thanks Pedro, Any way I have used
_ TYPE(INPUT) INTENS(HIGH) COLOR(TURQ) HILITE(USCORE)

and it is working. Thanks once again and you guys are giving a good motivation for me to learn more about REXX.

Thanks a lot !!

Pedro · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:26 pm

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:57 pm

But, by all means - learn more of both

d

kacks7 · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:15 am

hi pedro,

Pedro · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 7:18 pm

repeating:

You may think it is trivial, but it makes it hard to type in your field. If you make a mistake and need to insert a character, you cannot insert without deleting your '_' at the end of the string.

kacks7 · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:54 am

hi Pedro,

got your point. thank you. but a doubt, incase if i want to make a line with any other character like '.' instead of uscore what i need to use.??

acevedo · Active User Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 344 Location: Spain

Pedro · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 7:42 pm

I think I know what you are asking...

Multiple choice action lists should use USCORE. Use HILITE(USCORE)

Single choice action lists should use a period. use PAD(.) Only the selection field should have the pad.

There is a tradeoff in giving the user a visual clue about the use the list. This is the only case that I can think of to use PAD(.) instead of HILITE.h