Thanks Ben
I will look into this
marc
At 01:41 PM 06/28/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>Marc,
>
>I've never done this, but with some effort it might work...
>
>Button One [Start BoilerPlate] :
>----------------------------
>Output YourFile.cmd
>Wri 'Set v YourVarChar VarChar = +'
>Output Screen
>
>
>Button Two [Select Text]:
>------------------------------
>...Do stuff here to get text into note variable...
>output YourFile.cmd Append
>wri .YourNoteVar
>output screen
>&YourFile
>
>Button Three [Save Text]:
>-----------------------------------
>Insert/Update yourVarCharCol ... use .YourVarChar
>Del YourFile.cmd
>
>In a multi-user environment you might want to use (filename(0)) to
>generate the name for yourFile.cmd
>
>
>Ben Petersen
>
>
>
>On 28 Jun 2001, at 13:43, marc wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> >
> > I am wanting to use VARCHAR col in a form to create
> > letters to clients because the 4k limit of notes fields
> > is too small. But I can't use varchar's in expressions.
> >
> > I want my form to work something like this.
> > Have a Custnum field, date... then several buttons
> > and a varchar col. Each Button would pull up a
> > Choose box to select some canned text. This text
> > would be placed into the varchar col on the form.
> > The user could click on another button for another
> > paragraph or they could go into the varchar col and
> > edit the text.
> >
> > I am doing something like this using a note field but I
> > can't get it to work with varchar's.
> >
> > thanks for any suggestions
> > marc
> >
> >
> >
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