Problem displaying text in a field.

[Peter Hamilton-Scott]

I have modal form used for capturing preferences. Part of the form 
contains a popup trigger for one of 6 date formats, and another popup 
trigger for one of three separator styles. I have coded the event 
handler and based on the selection of the two popup trigger I format a 
sample date for display. That is 100% fine.

But...my Palm development book by Rhodes mentions that labels are not 
ideal for displaying data and that you should display data in a 
non-editable field instead. So here's my PilRC declaration:

    LABEL "Example:" AUTOID AT (27 36) FONT 1
    FIELD ID PrefsExample AT (74 36 62 10) MAXCHARS 11 DISABLED
I go through the usual code trick supposedly used for changing the value 
of the field text. Upto a point it works - almost but I'm getting some 
very strange behaviour.

1. I don't have EDITABLE declared in my FIELD yet I can edit the text! 
Why does it let me?

2. After the new field value is assigned, it is not displayed. But if I 
tap on the supposedly non-editable field and delete a character, the new 
field value is then displayed, sans the one character I've deleted. In 
other words, if the old value displayed is "ABC" and the new value is 
"123" then when I delete "C" from "ABC", the form suddenly displays "12".

3. I tried using FrmDrawForm after I've done the field assignment and 
that works, but...I have some graphical lines on the form I drew once 
and now I have to redraw them again! Surely, there has to be a better 
way than this?

4. I will later have a number of other fields I want to display and I 
want to get the best practice sorted out now. Can someone advise me what 
is the best way to display non-editable runtime data? And why my field 
is still editable when it should not be?

Thanks.
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